Edison-Ford Winter Estates.

About 40 minutes up the road from Naples, Florida is the Edison-Ford Winter Estates, the places these great wizards came from the North Land to spend their winters.

It is a lovely place to visit, right on the banks of the Caloosahatchee River



Built back in the good-ole days, before air-conditioning, so it was expected that the houses would have porches, wrap-around porches and very high ceilings.



Some of the labs, offices and work spaces are provided and presented to the public.
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Shakespeare at the Park

Shakespeare at the Park
Downtown Naples at the Sudgen Park
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Not much music - (Must have been pre-Mendelssohn)

great weather - good shade

 lots of emotion shown in the play - little audience involvement-almost as if it were being given without an audience  - right downtown .

Other artists were performing with Chalk Art in the street about a half a block away.  (Street was closed to traffic!)

Koreshan SP, Florida.

Koreshan State Park (KSP) is a remarkable place which memoralizes that great period when the Nineteenth Century turned into the brand-new Twentieth Century.  KSP was truly remarkable in many ways, especially for its "knowledge" of the solar system.  Remember, this was back when electricity had just been discovered, and the automobile was presenting itself as a useable alternative to horse back travel. Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford not only still walked the earth but they visited the area now known was Koreshan State Park several times. What would you do, for example, if you not only knew the entire universe was inside the earth – but you could prove it as well?

Dr. Cyrus Teed

Dr. Cyrus Teed had come upon the new way of "seeing" the planet Earth and the universe because of his expertise as a mathematician.  Professor Teed was also expermiting with electricity, and in the process he shocked himself into oblivion – almost.  Actually, he recovered several hours later and thereafter proceeded to "teach" what he claimed he had "learned" during his process of unconsciousness.

To prove Cyrus Teed’s strange theory, Professor Ulysses Morrow devised a huge instrument he dubbed the Rectilineator, which would measure the (inverse!) curvature of the Earth. The weird contraption consisted of ten huge, double T-squares made of seasoned mahogany, set horizontally on ten carefully balanced mounts. In January 1897, it took nearly a month for Professor Morrow and a dozen workers to setup and calibrate the big apparatus on a stretch of beach at Naples, Florida.  In the process, they "proved" the entire universe was  inside the planet Earth on a stretch of beach at Naples, Florida.
Today, Koreshan State Park is an interesting place to visit and walk the nice trails that accompany the Estero River, and also to roam through the beautiful area that accompanies the river and the park




There are many buildings that accompany the state park area, and it actually must have carried the atmosphere air of a great university. . . a University of Tomorrow, well . . . time will tell.




But it is a lovely place to visit, and walk on its trails, and perhaps, find out the great mysteries of the universe.

Clyde Butcher

Quick trip down to visit with Clyde Butcher who was having a "Meet the Artist" session today.  An hour and twenty minutes took   us 71 miles from our home in Naples to his place in Ochopee,  (o-CHOP-e) Florida

 
He was a friendly guy who met us and talked with us, very casually, as if he had no other thing planned for the day.  He let us  question him and he smiled often, even posing for pictures 
Later, we walked a small bit in the preserve which surrounds his place, 

and saw an amazing alligator (made out of nuts and bolts, bicycle chains, and rubber tires!)

We bought a great book of his fabulous photos and he autographed it for us.