Mary May Binney Wakefield Arboretum

2020 Stone Soup and Speaker Series:

Voices from our past; visions for our future

Thursday, February 27, 6:00-7:30 pm

What would Rachel Carson do today to tip the scales in favor of healthy future generations? What might she have to say to our policies for, and approaches to, food crops and the natural environment? If you think it's all bad news, it's not. At the second in our 2020 Stone Soup series,  Fruitlands Museum historian Helen Batchelder who will discuss Carson's deep interest in the natural world and lead us on a journey showing us where we've responded well to the warning bells rung decades ago in Carson's ground breaking work Silent Spring, first published in 1962 but still relevant today. With 2020 being the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, this year's series is focusing on key thought leaders from the past whose work continues to inform and influence our knowledge and work today as it relates to the environment and climate concerns.