Pittsburgh Flash Fiction Gazette

English: Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. Official photo as FWS employee. c. 1940. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It has been years since the Old Soldier read Silent Spring.  So, this afternoon when I walked down to the public library to return a book on the history of the Italian city of Venice, I could not help but to scoop up Rachel Carson, Witness For Nature.

The biography, written by Linda Lear and published in 1997, was on the shelf that the library uses to showcase different books in circulation.

It’s a glorious fall day in Pittsburgh today.  It’s mild (61) and sunny.  College students were everywhere.  The Old Soldier felt happy and young.

Well, the book on Rachel Carson is a fat one, over 600 pages if you count the end notes.

So, I will be reporting off  and on  about what I read about this great woman.  If you don’t realize that we are poisoning this planet that sustains us, that we are entering a critical phrase for the continuation of our species, you haven’t been paying attention.

Douglas’s review contributed to the success of Silent Spring, an important turning point for the environmental movement. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is the Old Soldier reporting from Pittsburgh.

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