A Pocketful of Goobers

There wasn't anything that George Washington Carver couldn't grow. He took the common goober--today's peanut--and created hundreds of useful products from it, turning goobers into a very profitable staple for the South. At the same time, this very special man passed on to everyone who knew him the importance of following one's own dreams. Mitchell lives in Otonabee, and she taught English literature at Trent University in the 1970s and 1980s.