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Junior Ranger Days
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Earn your Edison National Historic Site Junior Ranger badge during National Park Week.

Edison National Historic Site will celebrate National Park Week on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 25, 26, and 27, 2008 at Thomas Edison’s home, Glenmont in Llewellyn Park. Movies, exhibits and activities begin at 12:00pm and continue until 4:00pm. We will offer special Junior Ranger activity each day for families to Explore, Learn, and Protect their national parks.  

National Park Week is an annual Presidentially proclaimed week for celebration and recognition of Your National Parks. Your National Parks are living examples of the best this Nation has to offer - our magnificent natural landscapes and our varied yet interrelated heritage.
Thomas Alva Edison looking straight at the camera.  

Did You Know?
In 1920 Thomas Edison told reporter B.F. Forbes that he was working on a machine that could make contact with the spirits of the dead. Newspapers all over the world picked up this story. After a few years, Edison admitted that he had made the whole thing up.

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Last Updated: March 12, 2008 at 14:19 EST