Good morning Arkansas!

First stop, Buffalo National River:

I went for a quick run from the visitor center down to the river:

On the way out of the park, I went for a run/hike in the Collier Homestead, one of the last claims from the Homestead Act, made in 1931:

I drove back into Missouri to visit George Washington Carver National Monument:

The site preserves the childhood home of George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist who lectured at Tuskegee Institute, which I visited on our Winter 2019 trip.  Carver was an infant slave when he and his mother were kidnapped by slave raiders.  A bounty hunter was hired to recover them, but he only brought back an infant.  The child raised as George Washington Carver could very well be a different person than the infant slave kidnapped from the Carver homestead.

I toured the visitor center:

A replica of Carver’s lab at Tuskegee Institute:

I ran the park’s nature trail:

A replica of the home in which the Carvers raised their slave George:

Graves of George’s owners:

I continued into Kansas to overnight at Cowley State Fishing Lake.  See the trip map for today’s drive.