George Washington Carver's Little Workshop

Every morning before dawn, George Washington Carver walked the fields near Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, collecting plant specimens and praying. He called these walks his conversations with the Creator. "Mr. Creator," he would say, "show me the secrets you have placed in this peanut." Carver had arrived at Tuskegee in 1896 with almost nothing — a few changes of clothes and a deep conviction that God had called him to serve Southern farmers trapped in the devastation of soil-depleted cotton fields.…