Alvin Morgan Carving (:40)

As you enter the museum gallery, you see a carved representation of Alvin Morgan, the person for whom the city is name.  Dale Lewis, a local artist, used butternut wood to copy a photograph showing Morgan with his two companion pets, his dog Shep and his goose John.  The museum has been told that there was also a pet white buzzard.  When Morgan went to town, the dog and goose willingly followed him everywhere, but the buzzard refused to cross the railroad tracks.  Morgan’s house was originally just north of here, between the railroad tracks and Mustang Bayou.

The detailed carving was done with a chain saw and finished by hand.  The carving won first place in a National Carving Contest in Branson, Missouri in 1989.