The Bruce family was forced out by 1927. Their buildings were swiftly bulldozed and flattened before the ink had dried on the city’s legal intrusion. And the park that had justified it all? It wouldn’t be built for nearly 30 years.
While writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was dying of metastasizing breast cancer. Often in agony before she died, Carson asked her friends and colleagues to form an organization, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), to carry on her work.
Rachel Carson Council (RCC) President & CEO, Bob Musil, told his lecture audience during an Earth Week visit to the University of Virginia (UVA), Carson knew and loved Virginia, visited often, wrote about it in some depth, and would have admired the array of environmental programs, projects, institutes, and engaged students and faculty at today’s University of Virginia.
Excitement rushes through the crowd — it’s definitely a seal!
The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.