skrimshander

I went to Tuskegee AL to see the George Washington Carver Museum with my kids when I was homeschooling them. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life. They had a recording there of a speech by Mr. Carver. He was speaking about how, no matter what adveristy we are suffering in life, we must do our best and accomplish all we can. That one speech inspired me enough to last a lifetime. He composted, played piano, invented chemurgy, helped the South after the decimating war and the boll weevil by teaching new argricultural practices such as using peanut butter and sweet potatoes for human food, taught at Tuskegee insitute, used string from packages to make lace, canned food, made paint from southern soil to increase the life of southern homes and churches, started moving schools that sent students out to farmers to teach them efficient farming methods that preserved topsoil, rejected Henry Ford’s offer of a million dollars to work for him, and left the greater part of his paychecks uncashed to Tuskeegee Institute. All this by a baby child of a stolen slave mother left under a tree on a cold stormy night to die.