Let’s hope we have a pair of potential Rachel Carsons here with their Dad in Naskeag Harbor:
Rachel’s mother and father often are credited with making major contributions toward her eventual scientific and literary success. Her father, Robert W. Carson, reportedly took her on nature field trips beginning at a very early age and encouraged her to turn nature walks into scientific experiments and to keep a journal of her observations.
Unfortunately, Robert suffered difficulties that eventually led to another story that’s too sad to tell on this happy day when I get to reverse-celebrate our wonderful children who make me a proud father. (Leighton Archive image taken in Brooklin, Maine.) Click on the image to enlarge it.