Article today in Greenwich Time on a house for sale at 390 North Street. I don’t have much to say about the house itself, other than the owners and I hold different views as to its value, but I was intrigued to learn that the site once hosted a house by an electrical pioneer and ally of Thoms Edison. Edison promoted direct current while my own ancestor, John Caldwell, worked with the Westinghouse brothers to popularize alternating current. AC won out but not before Edison travelled the country pulling stunts like electrocuting an elephant to demonstrate the danger of alternating current.
None of which has anything to do with the house now on the site except that the original building burned down in 1903. I’m pretty sure that, had Nader and his fellows been around when geniuses were building this country, we’d still be living in swamps. Could still end up back in that unhappy state, too.
