George Washington Carver's Conversation with the Creator
George Washington Carver, the brilliant agricultural chemist born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, made a habit that puzzled his colleagues at Tuskegee Institute....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 104:24-34, 35b.
George Washington Carver, the brilliant agricultural chemist born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864, made a habit that puzzled his colleagues at Tuskegee Institute. Each morning before dawn, he walked the fields and woods surrounding campus, collecting specimens — wildflowers, soil samples, fungi, seed pods. He called these walks "conversations with the Creator." When asked how he discovered over three hundred uses for the humble peanut, Carver's answer was disarmingly simple.…
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