A Sense of Wonder Save The Date: October 2nd Spa State Park
Friday August 6th, 2010
Childen & Nature Saratoga Presents “A Sense of Wonder” a live performance by Kaiulani Lee based on the life and works of Rachel Carson. Co-sponsored by SUNY Adirondack and Home Made Theater
Saturday, October 2, 2010 at Home Made Theater
7:00pm Wine and cheese reception
7:30pm Theater performance and Q&A
9:00pm Dessert reception with Kaiulani Lee
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.
