> > >Hey, is the great one or two days a week Edison Interpreter who is a local >DJ with a passion for Edison going with the building? > Cuyler, We did not see him in the building... he could have been there. We may have met the ghost of Henry Ford, but we could have been romantic about it and it was the unamed radio guy instead. By the time we got to the building the collection had already been cleared out and sent on to the NPS. This is also the building that Edison supposedly experimented on making rubber from goldenrod -- think in terms of famous old guy, white haired, limping, deaf, sleepless wandering off for peace of mind from the confusion of international business to fiddle with his goldenrod in his private hideaway. Go figure! Greenfield Village is maintaining the Menlo Park motif... as this one building was from the West Orange era it was the black sheep... so they offered it back to the NPS. When we first saw the building it was painted red. I assumed it was red to begin with, but then I was told that no, the original color was gray. Seems when the Dearborn folk wanted to interest the NPS in the building they felt it needed a face lift so they painted it barn red the week before the NPS came out to look at it. ][<en -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>