Essex County - West Orange - Edison and Deafness: Thomas Edison NHP Book Club
Edison and Deafness - Spreaker: Mara Mills
Professor Mills received B.A. degrees in Biology and Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. in Biology/Ph.D. in History of Science from Harvard University. Professor Mills is a co-founder and co-director of the New York University Center for Disability Studies. She is the author of On the Phone: Hearing Loss and Communications Engineering (forthcoming, Duke University Press) and co-editor of Testing Hearing and the Making of Modern Aurality (forthcoming October 2020, Oxford University Press).
This presentation will be the sixth meeting of the Edison Book Club, a series of programs designed to engage readers with Edison, the recently published biography of Thomas Edison by Edmund Morris (Random House, 2019). The discussion for this meeting will focus on Edison and deafness, but questions and conversations about other aspects of the Morris book are also welcome. The Edison Book Club is free and open to the public. Reading the Edmund Morris book is encouraged but not required. Seating is limited. Arrive early to get a seat and settled before the program begins at 2:00 pm. This program is free with entrance fee to the park. If you are coming just for the program, please tell the visitor center desk that you are there just for the program and you will not be charged the entrance fee and they will escort you to the program location.
Otherwise, entrance tickets must be purchased at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park Laboratory Complex Visitor Center at 211 Main Street, West Orange, NJ. Admission is $15.00 per person and includes the Glenmont Estate and the Laboratory Complex. Children under age 16 are free. For more information, call 973-736-0550 x11 or visit www.nps.gov/edis.
