Anxiety, Insects, Sugar Cane, and Old Age

About the Book

This candid, entertaining and revealing account of the author´s life clearly depicts: his childhood during the Great Depression and on a small Alabama farm; the long-lasting effects of isolation from society; panic and anxiety attacks; how, as a mediocre high school student, he wasted a year at college; military life as an enlistee following World War II; the mediocre student becoming honor student with graduate degrees; the history and development of insect pest management practices in Louisiana sugar cane including research, changing farm practices, and the accompanying drama of conflict and interaction among those involved (chapters 9, 10, 14, 15 & 18); frustrations of some faculty in a small regional university; imbalance between family and profession; missions of an entomologist to foreign governments of Egypt and Brazil; the evolution of his faith; and conclusions from a long and confrontational life. Scroll down and click for seven-page excerpt.

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About the Author

The ultimate workaholic, starting as a shy and anxious child, with little self-esteem, who becomes scientist, entomologist, professor and consultant, Dr. Long was honored for “pioneering, developing and practicing the environmentally sound practice of Integrated Pest Management” of sugar cane insects, and was elected to the Louisiana Agricultural Hall of Fame for his “Years of Dedicated Service to the Betterment of Louisiana Agriculture.” Retired since 1999 and with thirteen grandchildren and great grandchildren scattered from Texas through Louisiana to Tennessee, he wrote this book with the hope that some recorded events from his life and possible lessons drawn therefrom might be instructive or entertaining or both.