In 1867, Caroline Shaw Brooks and her husband, Samuel, had a farm in Arkansas. From sunrise to sunset, Caroline and Samuel milked cows, gardened and picked cotton. This left Caroline no time for her dream of becoming an (1).
Time was not the only problem. Money was a (2) too. The cotton crops were failing. What could Caroline and Samuel do? Caroline decided to make butter from their (3) milk and sell it at the market. But other farms also made and sold butter. How would Caroline set her butter apart from the rest? This is where Caroline's artistic talent came in. To draw attention to her butter, she began making small butter sculptures (雕刻品). She used many (4) tools, such as broom straws, and tree sticks. She also put the butter in a small tin plate, which sat in a (5) tin plate filled with ice to stop the butter sculpture out of shape.
Caroline's butter sculptures were a huge (6). Before long, she was showing them at markets and exhibitions. One of her largest butter sculptures was a life-size statue (7) "A Study in Butter". It was transported all the way to Paris for the 1878 world's fair.
Caroline also made sculptures using marble (大理石). She (8) opened a studio in New York City where she created many marble sculptures, some of which were shown at the 1893 world's fair in Chicago.
But Caroline never stopped making butter art. She (9) butter an excellent material to work with. At the 1893 market, she also displayed her butter techniques with a sculpture of Christopher Columbus.
Caroline Shaw Brooks died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1913. She is remembered as the (10) known American butter sculptor.