Looking for weekend plans after the fireworks? Southwest Florida has you covered with historic home tours, baseball, ...

The targets of a recall effort on Fort Myers Beach are firing back. Council members John King and Karen Woodson have filed ...

Sure, you can read about the Wright brothers in a book and learn how they converted their knowledge of bicycles into the ...

American Airlines is adding new routes from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to three popular beach, wine and ski destinations in ...

A major preservation project is underway at the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers. Crews are replacing the wooden roof on Thomas Edison's main winter home, a task that hasn't been ...

And the event, taking place April 2-3 at Caloosa Sound Convention Center in downtown Fort Myers, offers so much more to those residing near the winter home of Thomas Edison and the surrounding ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Back in 1885, Thomas Edison was one of the original snowbirds after building a winter estate on Florida's southwest coast. His home, known as the Seminole lodge, became a ...

The Edison & Ford Winter Estates — the former winter homes of inventor Thomas Edison and car manufacturer Henry Ford — have a staff of 90 employees, Cosden says.

An Early Interest in Science Thomas Alva Edison was born in 1847 in MIlan, Ohio. He attended a formal school for only a few months and was instead homeschooled by his mother, a former school teacher.

And the crowd loved it. Members of the Fort Myers High School marching band take part in the 2024 Edison Festival of Light Grand Parade in downtown Fort Myers on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024.

Once the newlyweds arrived at Edison’s summer home in Fort Myers, Florida, Mina spent less than an hour a day with Edison — entertaining herself for the rest of the time with her new ...

Mina Miller Edison Was Much More Than the Wife of the ‘Wizard of Menlo Park’ The second wife of Thomas Edison, she viewed domestic labor as a science, calling herself a “home executive” ...