Leopold Center to host Rachel Carson play
The poetry, prose and beliefs of environmentalist Rachel Carson will come alive at Iowa State University in a November 8 presentation of "A Sense of Wonder." The Leopold Center is sponsoring the performance of a one-woman play, based on the life and works of Rachel Carson, in the Maintenance Shop of the ISU Memorial Union. The 8 p.m. performance will be followed by a discussion of Carson's views on sustainable agriculture. Leopold Center director Fred Kirschenmann will moderate the discussion. New York actress Kaiulani Lee has written the play with the help of many of Carson's friends and colleagues. It depicts the time in Carson's life when she battled breast cancer and the public furor over her book Silent Spring. Miss Lee has more than 20 years of experience in theatre, including leading roles in a dozen plays and appearances on numerous television shows. The performance is part of Women's Week activities coordinated by the ISU Committee on Lectures. No admission will be charged but limited seating is available at the Maintenance Shop. For more information, contact Laura Miller at the Leopold Center, (515) 294-3711, or go to the Center's web site .The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. -- Rachel Carson, 1954, ( Author of Silent Spring, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962 |
