As part of its year-long theme, “The Land and its People,” Pejepscot History Center’s fifth Joshua Chamberlain Legacy Lecture examines the havoc war wreaks on the natural world. The talk is at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, at Dutchman’s event venue in Fort Andross, Brunswick.

University of Georgia environmental historian Brian Allen Drake, editor of “The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War,” will discuss how human violence toward one another also leaves an indelible mark on all of nature.

“It’s fitting to have Brian with us to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this book,” PHC Director Larissa Picard said in a prepared release. “When this book was published in 2015, there was very little literature on the environmental history of the Civil War. Given Chamberlain’s own love and appreciation for the land and its natural resources, and his thirst for learning, he would have welcomed an examination like this.”

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A cash bar and light refreshments will be available. Collectible framed artwork of Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War will be on display and auctioned off during the event to raise funds for the museum.

Drake’s research focuses on the postwar American environmental movement generally. He has a keen interest in the environmental history of the American Civil War as well as the history of epidemics. He is the author of “Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics Before Reagan.” He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas.

The Chamberlain Legacy Lecture series was created in 2021 to highlight the many aspects of Joshua Chamberlain’s life and 19th-century world that continue to resonate in the world today. Pejepscot History Center has owned and operated the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum since 1983.

Advance registration is required. Tickets are $20 for the general public, $15 for PHC members and $5 for students and active military. Visit pejepscothistorical.org or by call 729-6606.