RACHEL CARSON: A Crusading Environmentalist Rachel Carson at Woods Hole Biological Laboratory, 1929 "I had my first prolonged contact with the sea at Woods Hole. I never tired of watching the tidal currents pouring through the Hole — that wonderful place of whirlpools and eddies and swiftly racing water." -- Carson's speech to the sorority for women journalists, Theta Sigma Pi, in 1954. (Read a reprint from LOST WOODS: THE DISCOVERED WRITING OF RACHEL CARSON, at the Fish & Wildlife Service site) (PDF)