His story didn’t begin in Port Huron, but as a young boy, Thomas Edison made quite an impact on the area. Starting at age 12, much of his work was done on the trains to Detroit and Chicago, from selling newspapers, printing his own, and also conducting experiments in a lab on the train. Thumbcoast Memories journeys through history with prolific inventor, Thomas Alva Edison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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