Thursday, October 24, 2013

What's Gotten Into Us: Toxic Chemicals and Their Impact on Our Health and the Environment


Baltimore City Historical Society, Friends of Maryland Olmsted Parks and Landscapes and Cathedral of the Incarnation's Creation Care

Explore Environmental History with McKay Jenkins: 

What's Gotten Into Us: Toxic Chemicals and Their Impact on Our Health and the Environment

1pm to 3pm Saturday November 2, 2013
Peabody Room, Cathedral of the Incarnation,
4 E. University Parkway, Baltimore 21218

McKay Jenkins authored "What's Gotten into Us? Staying Healthy in a Toxic World" and edits "The Peter Mattiessen Reader", an anthology of American nature writing.

He is the Cornelius Tighman Professor of English, Journalism and Environmental Humanities at the University of Delaware.
 
He has a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Amherst College.

He lives with his family in Armagh Village on the Baltimore City/County line while teaching an interdisciplinary course at UD on the history, literature and ecology of the Chesapeake. His course includes taking students paddling on the Susquehanna River.

Visit his webpage at www.mckayjenkins.com where you can read his recently published piece, "The Era of Suburban Sprawl has to End. So, Now What?"

Free admission, parking and refreshments
 

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