the 4th Annual Rachel Carson Memorial Dinner       -       An uplifting evening to celebrate our place on the planet

Saturday 6 June 2009, 6:30 pm       - Live musical entertainment       - Delicious vegetarian dinner       - Speaker: Ken Voorhis, Executive Director of the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont - 'A Sense of Wonder, A Sense of Stewardship'       - $20/person $12/ages 3-12       - at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 3224 Navajo Drive, Chattanooga TN 37411       - Open to all. Childcare provided.       - Call 423. 624.2985 to make reservations (confirmed by payment)

kids treehug - photo by Ken Voorhis

Rachel Louise Carson (1907-1964) was an American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement Carson started her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her financial security and recognition as a gifted writer. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the republished version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. / In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation and the environmental problems caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring in 1962, which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented portion of the American public.       -=//=-       Ken Voorhis, the dinner speaker, has served as executive director of Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont in Townsend, Tennessee, since 1984. / He holds a B.S. from West Virginia University in Parks & Recreation with an emphasis in Nature Interpretation, and an M.S. in Experiential Education, from Mankato State University in Minnesota. Ken has been involved in environmental education for over 25 years working in programs in Ohio, North Carolina, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. He lives at Tremont with his wife Jennifer and three children Bonnie Jo, Woody, and Robin, whom they have home-schooled. / His interests include family, hiking, canoeing, birding, trees, storytelling music, Christianity, and exploring out-of-the-way places in the Smokies.





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