HN Board Member Dr. David Vail will present “Vulnerable Harvests: Risk and Resiliency in the Cold War Great Plains” as part of the Kearney Public Library Brown Bag History Series. It is an ideal event for those who are interested in the upcoming Nebraska Chautauqua, “The Fifties in Focus” which will be held July 28-30 in McCook.
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Vulnerable Harvests: Risk and Resiliency in the Cold War Great Plains
July 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Kearney Public Library and the University of Nebraska at Kearney History Department will host Vail’s presentation noon-1 p.m. July 13 at KPL. Guests are invited to bring their own lunch to enjoy during the presentation.
“Vulnerable Harvests” will examine the shifting roles of agricultural scientists, government policymakers and farmers in the midst of increasing ecological risks to the North American grasslands in the 1950s.
Vail is an associate professor of history at UNK who specializes in environmental and agricultural history, science and medicine, the Great Plains, and public history. Vail is the author of two books: “Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands Since 1945,” published by the University of Alabama Press in 2018 and “Interpreting Environment at Museums and Historic Sites,” with co-author Debra A. Reid published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2019.
