A Visit to Rachel Carson’s Home

by Kathy Jentz

Rachel Carson’s modest home in Silver Spring, MD

On May 27, 2017, the occasion of what would have been Rachel Carson’s 110th birthday, a group of members of the Maryland Native Plant Society and their guests toured the Rachel Carson House and Rachel Carson Greenway in the White Oak section of Silver Spring, MD.

This was the home where Carson wrote Silent Spring and spent her final years. After decades of renting…