Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson : A Local Chronology

Year	Age	Watershed & Residence		Employment Notes	Publication of Books & Selected Articles
1937	30	1 Sligo Creek watershed: 904 Highland Dr Silver Spring	July '37 move from Baltimore to Woodside Park neighborhood	Since Aug '36: aquatic biologist, US Bureau of Fisheries—Baltimore-based	Atlantic Monthly (Sept), "Undersea"
1938	31	1 Sligo Creek watershed: 904 Highland Dr Silver Spring
1939	32	2 Sligo Creek watershed: 9409 Flower Ave Silver Spring	Fall '39 move to Seven Oaks neighborhood (S of Franklin)	Transferred from Baltimore to College Park	Nature Magazine (June/July), "How About Citizenship Papers for the Starling?"
1940	33			Bureau of Fisheries into new Fish and Wildlife Service
1941	34				Sea I: *Under the Sea-Wind*
1942	35
42-43		Chicago	8-month job transfer (wartime)
1943	36	3 Sligo Creek watershed: 7724 Maple Ave Takoma Park	May 1st move on quick return from Chicago posting	Return to FWS office in US Dept of Interior building, 1849 C Street NW, DC
1944	37	3 Sligo Creek watershed: 7724 Maple Ave Takoma Park			Colliers (Nov), "The Bat Knew It First"
1945	38	4 Sligo Creek watershed: 9713 Sutherland Rd Silver Spring	Move to northern edge of North Hills neighborhood		First appearance in the Reader's Digest
1946	39		First summer in Maine, near Boothbay Harbor	Editor for FWS series, "Conservation in Action," including field research & writing for #1,2,4,5
1947	40
1948	41
1949	42	5 NW Branch watershed: 204 Williamsburg Dr Silver Spring	Sept. moved to Woodmoor neighborhood
1950	43
1951	44			Guggenheim Fellowship (1 yr gov't leave); then resigned federal service, June 1952	Sea II: *The Sea Around Us* serialized in The New Yorker and a best-seller
1952	45				Sea I re-issued, also now a best-seller
1953	46			full-time writer
1954	47
1955	48				Sea III: The Edge of the Sea
1956	49				"Help Your Child to Wonder"
1957	50	6 NW Branch watershed: 11701 Berwick Rd Silver Spring	Adopted Roger. July move to Quaint Acres neighborhood
1958	51		Mother died (Aug)		Jr edition of *Sea Around Us*
1959	52
1960	53
1961	54
1962	55				*Silent Spring* (Sept '62), after June serialization in The New Yorker
1963	56		Congressional hearing (June)
1964			Died at home (April 14). Ashes interred at Parklawn Cemetery (Viers Mill Road) & scattered in Maine.
1965					posthumous: *The Sense of Wonder*

Sources

The initial resource for the Carson Local Chronology was:
Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (1997, 634 pp.; 2009, 2nd ed.)
Supplemented by:
Brooks, Paul. The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work (1972, 350 pp.)
Souder, William. On a Further Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson (2012, 497 pp.)
Additional detail was found via:
Beinecke Library [Yale University], Digital Collections. Accessed 10-23-2013
brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/353590
House number for Williamsburg Drive rental

Gagné, Sally. North Hills of Sligo Creek: History, People and Surroundings (2003, 193 pp.)
Neighborhood of Sutherland Road

Oshel, Robert E. Home Sites of Distinction: the History of Woodside Park (1998, 308 pp.)
House number for Highland Drive rental

Pennsylvania College for Women, Alumnae Association. “The Alumnae Recorder,” Fall 1946;
House number for Flower Avenue: www.mocavo.com/Alumnae-Recorder-Pennsylvania-College-for-Women-1946-1950-Volume-Fall-1946-Spring-1950/114161/36
House number for Sutherland Road: www.mocavo.com/Alumnae-Recorder-Pennsylvania-College-for-Women-1946-1950-Volume-Fall-1946-Spring-1950/114161/184

Bruce A. Sidwell, Takoma Park resident, with Rachel Carson Council and Historic Takoma
House number for Maple Avenue rental

Laura Mol for Friends of Sligo Creek
Silver Spring, Maryland - February 2014