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Women Who Invented the Sixties tells the story of how four women helped define the 1960s and made a lasting impression for decades to follow.

Spring Story celebrates the legacy of author and scientist Rachel Carson, widely regarded as the mother of the modern environmental movement. Featuring Barbara Kingsolver, William Shatner, Richard Powers, Cixin Liu, Sen. Jamie Raskin, Doro Bush Koch, and more, this podcast explores how her groundbreaking book Silent Spring and other works shaped their lives and careers. We discuss Carson's impact on environmental science, literature, and public policy, uncovering why her work remains vital today. Share your own stories about Carson through the Springsong Museum VoxPop app or website.

On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen's University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them. Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening.