A brief introduction to the effective Lagrangian treatment of QCD (in the
sense of using fields representing physical particles rather than quarks and
gluons) will be given. The historical evolution of the subject will be
discussed. Some background material related to a recent model for Gamma Ray
Bursters will be given. Finally, some recent work on low energy strong
interactions will be mentioned.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, talk at "Compact stars in the QCD phase
diagram", Copenhagen, Aug. 15-18, 200
