Army veteran and former teacher Lee Washington of Rolling Fork, Miss., bends and welds worn-out cotton picker spindles into scenes from the Delta. 28,072 people played the daily Crossword recently ...

What's not as well known is the role Pearson played in helping John Rust, who invented the first practical spindle cotton picker in the late 1930s, finally achieve financial success.

In 2001 he began looking at worn-out spindles from cotton pickers that were in his shop at the school in a different way. "The spindles are used to extract the cotton from the boll," Washington said.

In 1942, the International Harvester Corp. of Chicago, Illinois, was forced to delay the mass production of their barbed-spindle cotton picker because of the rationing of steel during World War II.

For the welter of enthusiasm and disparagement that resulted from last week’s show, a few facts stood out clearly. Under favorable conditions, the Rust picker does pick cotton fast and cheaply ...

Infinite Scroll Enabled lee's cotton picker art SOURCE: WAPT ROLLING FORK, Miss. — The manager of a Rolling Fork art gallery is working to rebuild and reopen Lee's Cotton Picker Art after it was ...

Army veteran and former teacher Lee Washington of Rolling Fork, Miss., bends and welds worn-out cotton picker spindles into scenes from the Delta.