Summary: Owings Mills writer Elizabeth Bastos has a Christmas story about beauty, ugliness, and truffles. It was 50 years ago that Rachel Carson published Silent Spring--the book that kickstarted the modern environmental movement. She based some of her book on work done at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel. Three retired scientists there tell us about Carson and the eventual ban of DDT. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra musicians Phil Munds and Ken Goldstein were making a record with pianist and composer Bryan Rowe when he died in 2009. Bryan's widow Barbara encouraged them to finish. Today, they tell Tom Hall about the album that resulted, called Thin Space.
