ABILENE, Kan. – The June Lunch & Learn program is Thursday, June 28 at noon in the Eisenhower Presidential Library Visitors Center Auditorium, 200 SE 4th, Abilene. David Vail will explore the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals and the environment. Free and open to the public, a light lunch is included on a first come, first serve basis.
Vail is the Assistant Professor, Environmental and Agricultural History, Science & Technology, and Great Plains at University of Nebraska at Kearney. He holds a BA from Southern Oregon University, an MA from Utah State University, and a PhD from Kansas State University. Vail’s recently published book, Chemical Lands: A History of Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945, is an environmental-agricultural-