George Washington Carver by Amie Jane Leavitt

Author:Amie Jane Leavitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mitchell Lane

In a radio address in 1941, Carver recalled traveling from Iowa to Alabama: “When my train left the golden wheat fields and the tall green corn of Iowa for the acres of cotton, nothing but cotton, my heart sank. . . . The scraggly cotton grew close up to the cabin doors; a few lonesome collards, the only sign of vegetables. . . . Everything looked hungry: the land, the cotton, the cattle, and the people.”

CHAPTER FIVE

A Living Legacy

George Washington Carver wasn’t just a scientist. He was also a musician and an artist. He could play the piano very well, and he was a talented painter. His specialty was painting nature pictures. He made his own paint colors using soil, rocks, and flower petals. He had other talents too. “I knit, I crochet, and made all my hose, mittens . . . while I was in school,” he once told a friend.

Carver worked his entire life to help others. “Some day I will have to leave this world. And when that day comes, I want to feel that I have an excuse for having lived in it. I want to feel that my life has been of some service to my fellow man,” he said in 1917.

Carver didn’t care about riches. He took only a small salary (SAA-luh-ree) from Tuskegee. He once said, “I’ve never received any money for my discoveries. Somebody who had benefited by one of my products from the peanut sent me $100 the other day, but I sent it back to him.”

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