Author Edith Powell will speak about her book, "More Than Peanuts: The Unlikely Friendship of Tom Huston and George Washington Carver."
"More Than Peanuts" is a tale of the unlikely friendship between George Washington Carver and Tom Huston, along with two other peanut company executives, Bob Barry and Grady Porter. From 1924 until the end of Carvers life, these four men, three White and one Black, sustained a professional partnership and a personal friendship built on mutual admiration, respect, trust and purpose.
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