Northern lights Garden party helps keep program afloat
Sunday, July 18, 2010
The return of Dr. Neil Compton’s metal canoe to his former home - now the Compton Gardens and Conference Center - was the highlight of the Peel Compton Foundation’s inaugural fundraiser, “The Gardens Uncorked,” held at twilight on July 10. Compton, a Bentonville doctor and naturalist, helped establish the Ozark Society and was ultimately instrumental in saving the Buffalo River from damming by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Just as the dogwoods and redbuds were blooming in the spring of 1972, former President Richard Nixon signed a bill designating the Buffalo the first national river in the United States. (Compton died at age 86 in 1999.) Compton’s canoe was found in storage at the Tyler Bend Visitor ...
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Northwest Profile, Pages 38 on 07/18/2010
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