Rachel Carson Holiday Event at Spring Street Gallery
Monday November 30th, 2009
Children & Nature Saratoga invites you to a very special afternoon celebrating the life and legacy of Rachel Carson. View “A sense of Wonder”, the movie, in our new surround sound theatre. Also, featuring special guests, Joseph Bruchac (Author) and Thomas Locker (Illustrator) who will autograph copies of their new book “Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder”. Free and open to the public! Hard cover copies of the book will be available for a $25 donation to Children and Nature Saratoga.
Sunday Afternoon, December 6, 2009
2:30 - 6pm
Spring Street Gallery
110 Spring Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Contact: Ardie Pierce, Gallery Director 495-9698 or
2:30-4:00 BOOK SIGNING & CHILDREN’S CRAFT
Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder
Join Joseph Bruchac (Author) and Thomas Locker (Illustrator) in the gallery for autographs, a reading, and discussion of their latest book.
Hard cover copies will be available for a $25 donation to Children & Nature Saratoga.
4:00 FIRST SCREENING OF “A SENSE OF WONDER: The Film”
5:00 SECOND SCREENING OF “A SENSE OF WONDER: The Film”
ABOUT THE BOOK:
This handsome picture-book biography presents the life and accomplishments of Rachel Carson. After telling about Carson’s childhood, her education, and her career as a writer, Bruchac writes lyrically about her love of nature, particularly the ocean, and concludes with an appreciation of her impact on the environment. Similar in format and layout to Locker’s books John Muir: America’s Naturalist (2003) and Walking with Henry: Based on the Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau (2002), this volume offers several lines of text on each left-hand page, facing a full-page illustration. Locker’s paintings, particularly the landscapes, are dramatically lit scenes that capture the beauty and majesty of nature.
ABOUT THE MOVIE:
When pioneering environmental Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her love of privacy, Carson’s convictions about the risks posed by chemical pesticides forced her into a very public and controversial role.
Using many of Miss Carson’s own words, Kaiulani Lee embodies this exraordinary woman in a documentary-style film, which depicts Carson in the final year of her life. Struggling, with cancer, Carson recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government, and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.
