A year of deadly coronavirus in Maryland: life interrupted, fears faced and faith still alive

I note with odd irony an email received one year ago and kept as a kind of souvenir. It was from the Friends of Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and Refuge announcing a lecture entitled “Conserving Insects and What You Can Do To Help,” to be delivered on Saturday, March 7 by Dr. Rebeccah Waterworth, entomologist in the Office of Pesticide Programs at the Environmental Protection Agency. The email arrived with an invitation attached and ended with these words: “The attachment is virus free and safe to open.”