As we near the winter solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere – short, dark days that can have their challenges – Rachel Carson’s words remind us that the beauty of nature can buoy our spirits and energize us. Even when our forests are mostly browns and grays, there is drama in their starkness, allowing us to see more clearly the resident and visiting birds, the architecture of trees, the stunning red of the native winterberries, made all the brighter alongside the neutral tones of our winter landscape.

Springsong Museum is featured in a series of articles published in Pathways, a community magazine with a distribution of 15,000 copies. Part Three: Resolving Ourselves To Do Good in the Natural World is published in the Winter Edition and shares some of Rachel Carson’s writings and philosophy.

On October 22, 2024 Rebecca Henson of Springsong Museum delivered a presentation on Rachel Carson (1907-1964), world-renowned writer, biologist, and considered by many as the ‘Mother of the Modern Environmental Movement’ who lived her adult life in Silver Spring. Henson will provide an overview of Carson’s life and written works, discussing her courage, ecological philosophy, and clear-eyed wonder in the natural world around us, including right here in Montgomery County.

Springsong Museum is featured in a series of articles published in Pathways, a community magazine with a distribution of 15,000 copies. Part Two: Inspiring Intergenerational Nature Education is published in the Fall Edition and highlights the importance of intergenerational nature education discussed in Rachel Carson’s posthumously published The Sense of Wonder.

Springsong Museum is featured in a series of articles published in Pathways, a community magazine with a distribution of 15,000 copies. Part One: Time for Rachel Carson is published in the Summer Edition and highlights Carson’s writing about time and the wonders of nature in her bestselling books Under the Sea-Wind, The Edge of the Sea, and Silent Spring.