The Aroostook County Extension Association will hold its annual meeting on Thursday, Oct. 20, at the Aroostook Shrine Club on Rt. 1 (390 Houlton Rd.) in Presque Isle.
During the siege of Leningrad, a group of Russian botanists holed up in a secret vault starved to death rather than consume the greatest collection of seeds they were guarding for a post-apocalyptic world. Worse, Nikolay Vavilov, the man who had collected the seeds, also died of hunger in Stalin’s gulag.
As he lay dying of hunger in a Russian Gulag, biologist, geneticist, geographer and agronomist Nikolay Vavilov must have tasted the irony of his situation after a life dedicated to saving Russia from famine and feeding the world. As he lay dying of hunger in a Russian Gulag, biologist, genetici.