January 20 - Edison and Ford Museum

Next is Little Manatee River State Park near Bradenton, but we first stopped in Ft. Myers to go through the Edison and Ford Museum and their winter homes. It is amazing how much Edison invented. At an early age he decided he was going to be an inventor. He had 1063 patents; besides electricity and the light bulb he invented the movies, phonograph, and more. He was very impressed with Ford and likewise, so they had winter homes beside each other. Ford loved to square dance and so he would move the furniture onto the porch so that he could have dances in his home.