• Boy Carver Statue by Robert Amendola

    George Washington Carver

    National Monument Missouri

Prairie Day 2012

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Date: July 31, 2012

Prairie Day 2012

Saturday, September 8, 2012

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Celebrating life on the Missouri prairie during the late 1800s when George Washington Carver was a child, this event includes woodcarving, basket weaving, candle-making, Dutch-oven cooking, spinning, weaving, storytelling, musical groups, quilting, a junior ranger station, and more.        

Prairie Day 2012      

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Did You Know?

George Washington Carver in his Lab

George Washington Carver dedicated 47 years of his life to teaching and working at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.  He chose a life of service to his fellow man and became a symbol of interracial cooperation.

Photo courtesy of Tuskegee University