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    Updated: 15-Jun-2007

 

Side Trip to Thomas Edison and Henry Ford's winter homes and museum 
(December 24, 2000)

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A group shot in front of the largest Banyan tree in the US.  Amazing to see. (R-L .. Blaine, Janet, Den, Debbie, Lee)

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Edison's desk in his workshop.  I'm not sure the Christmas decorations are original! 


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Have a look at the Everglades Christmas Choir!  Miniature, of course. 

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Thomas' Edison's front porch --- Janet has decided that our next house will have to have a porch this big. 

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Tarpon caught by Edison's son, Charles.  Charles remarked that it was the only thing he ever did better than his father.  HUGE!

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Some of Henry Ford's handiwork.

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Henry Ford's winter home (Front)

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Edison's laboratory where he worked to retrieve latex rubber from goldenrod.


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Did you know that Edison was the one to invent the first movie projector? I didn't.

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One of Edison's most famous inventions -- the Phonograph.  Lots of different models.

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