A Place Called Home

Living on Earth

The strong sense of place that Kate, MaryKate and Katie, three generations of women from one family, experience when they go to their lake house in Connecticut inspired each of them to write poetry. When they heard about the EPA’s Rachel Carson Sense of Wonder contest, the women combined their poems into one. Host Jeff Young talks with these women about their winning poem, A Place of Peace.

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