EAST BOOTHBAY, Maine — At Ocean Point, the Atlantic Ocean coils like a fighter preparing a roundhouse punch, then pummels the gargantuan slate shore with thunderous waves. Tourists who flock to ...

Like so many people drawn to coastal Maine for vacation, Rachel Carson loved to go ... Michelle Ferrari filmed and did research at Carson’s Southport cottage, which is still owned by her family.

Grass-roots activism led to the creation of the EPA Carson was sometimes called ... She then built a summer cottage on Maine's Southport Island, where she met Dorothy Freeman, a married woman ...

The window of Tom Myette’s Southport, Maine home looks out over Dogfish Head, where environmentalist Rachel Carson studied marine life and wrote her seminal book Silent Spring. He loves the natural ...

Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by ... The two had been drawn together from the moment they met in 1953 on Southport Island, Maine, and remained close until 1964, when Carson died ...

First in an occasional series on Rachel Carson a half-century after the publication of “Silent Spring.” On Monday, women inspired by Carson become environmental activists.

Steingraber edited a new book for the Library of America that celebrates work by Rachel Carson.

(Heritage Art / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Rachel ... Carson confessed that she had always wanted to write. “But I don’t have much imagination,” she went on. “Biology has given me ...