The Huron and Edison

I wrote a while back about joining a Flat Stanley exchange and thought I might post some of the adventures the boys have gone on.  Although we sent out our Flat Travelers some weeks ago, they have only visited with two families so far.  The first family didn't send us pictures (?!), but we are told that the kids went to Six Flags in Massachusetts. 

From there Flat Ben, Will and Charlie traveled to a town just north of Port Huron, Michigan in the thumb portion of The Mitten, across the road from lake Huron.

While there, the boys went on a field trip with their hosts Dan and Joey to see The Huron, which was a rescue boat used to help grounded freighters on Lake Huron. It is now retired in the straights between the US and Canada just south of the Blue Water Bridge between Port Huron, Michigan and Canada.

 

Another special treat, the boys were taken to see the Thomas Edison Depot Museum. Here's what our hosts wrote about that...

Port Huron is the youth home of Thomas Edison from 7 to 16. He was homeschooled by his mother because the school master thought he asked to many questions and was a "day dreamer", but really it was because he could not hear very well. At age 12 he got a job selling goods on a train that ran from Port Huron to Detroit. 

He did science experiments in the baggage car until he started it on fire!

 

Sitting in the restored baggage car.

He wanted to go to Detroit so that he could go to the library. According to the Museum he read every book at the Detroit Library.  Then he got a printing press from Detroit and started printing papers that he could sell on the train. He then went on to be a telegrapher.

 

With an Edison cylinder phonograph.

It was such a silly thrill to get pictures of the kids visiting these new places, and the Huron/Edison field trip is just the kind of thing our family would choose to do  ourselves!  We are really looking forward to hearing from our next host family!