set up one of his factories. Inside the Edison museum, we saw this really cool way to make a phonograph using normal materials from your home. I can't wait to put one together myself.
The tower was closed for renovation. The museum was free to visit, with a suggested donation of $2 per person.On our way back home, we stopped in Philadelphia to visit some old friends.
They showed us around town: the Liberty Bell, 
the home where Thomas
Jefferson lived while he worked on the Declaration of Independence,
and the park by the Museum of Art, 
where we actually saw a man running up the stairs like Rocky. 
We loved the parts of the city we saw. It was beautiful. Thanks to the Tolleys for showing us a great time.
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We loved having you!
I'll have to send you pictures of you and your family with beautiful Philly in the background.
Ah, I love tour blogs. Thanks for sharing. I have wanderlust big time right now because I didn't get away anywhere besides Cedar City last summer. The only place I've ever been in NJ is the airport, so it's fun to see your pics. Glad you had a good trip.
More pictures can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/natalie.tolley/November2009
The Edison Museum
by They Might be Giants
The Edison Museum, not open to the public
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
Folks drive in from out of town
To gaze in amazement when they see it
Just outside the gate I look into the courtyard
Underneath the gathering thunderstorm
Through the iron bars, I see the Black Mariah
Revolving slowly in its platform
In the topmost tower, the lights burn dim
A coiling filament glowing within
The Edison Museum, once a bustling factory
Today is but a darkened cobweb-covered hive of industry
The tallest, widest and most famous haunted mansion in New Jersey
Behind a wooden door, the voice of Thomas Alva
Recites a poem on a phonograph
Ghosts float up the stairs, like silent moving pictures
The loyal phantoms of his in house staff
A wondrous place it is, there can be no doubt
But no one ever goes in, and no one ever goes out
So when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them
Just tell them that you'll take them to the Edison Museum
The Largest independently owned and operated mausoleum
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