Chautauqua at the Ruidoso Public Library on Saturday, April 16 @ 11 am

 THE WONDER OF NATURE: RACHEL CARSON

This program would be of interest to anyone interested in ecology.

Ann Beyke becomes Rachel Carson in this presentation from the New Mexico Humanities Council.

"Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement."

(from  http://www.rachelcarson.org )

      

 at Ruidoso Public Library Saturday, April 16 at 11 am