Today is Thomas Edison’s 172nd birthday. Although most famous for the light bulb, Edison’s list of inventions is extensive and includes the phonograph, nickel-iron batteries (used to power early automobiles) and the kinetoscope, which was the first motion picture camera, inspired, perhaps, by his childhood dream to become an actor.
Here are a few stories inspiring us today:
What will Chattanooga be like in another 20 years? For starters, we shouldn’t need a car to get around town by 2040, according to one of the most comprehensive community planning initiatives in a generation.
Belinda Hartford is a tall woman with a thick accent that is a mix of the two places she grew up and then later lived – South Africa and Australia. She wears cowgirl boots, bedazzled jeans, a snake-skin patterned shirt and a fringed leather tool belt around her waist. Hartford is not your typical “handy man.”
“One of the exciting, or scary things about doing this monthly feature for the paper is that we don’t always know how it will turn out,” Kelley Courter, co-author of “Courter’s Kitchen,” says in regards to this month’s recipe: deconstructed chicken potpie with an Indian twist.