Rachel Carson was thrust into controversy with the 1962 publication of her book Silent Spring, which alerted the world to the dangers of chemical pesticides and launched the modern environmental movement. In a film shot on location in Carson’s cabin on the coast of Maine, Kaiulani Lee portrays the writer during the last year of her life, reprising the role from her critically acclaimed one-woman play of the same name. A discussion with Lee follows the screening. Presented as part of the Environmental Film Festival. (54 minutes, 2008)
Sponsor: National Portrait Gallery
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