Rebecca Bell, an environmental education specialist from the Maryland State Department of Education, grew up ? albeit decades later ? in the same western Pennsylvania outdoors as Rachel Carson, whose landmark 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” exposed the dangers of pesticides.
“We walked in the same woods by the Allegheny River,” Bell said. “My class read her book in high school, and I wanted to be a conservationist ? which was it was called then ? like her.”
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