We drove down to the Edison-Ford winter homes in Fort Myers en route to an art and antiques fair in Naples. The later was not nearly as good as the former! It's somewhere we have been meaning to go for years -- now we need to revisit Edison's labs in Melno Park, NJ.
We examined the artifacts
in the museum, visited the houses, and enjoyed the vast collection of "botanicals" that remained after Edison and Ford's search for a local source and process for synthetic rubber.
Jack visited with Henry Ford (one and a half time life-size), and I chatted with Mrs Edison. Thomas looked on from under a huge banyan tree.
Beyond Edison's four major inventions -- the dynamo to generate electricity, electric light, the phonograph and the moving picture -- I realized an even greater indebtedness to
his research process and detailed lab notebooks.
It was a welcome break from my own "research" and artistic endeavors. But we were back too late for a walk on the beach.
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