Thomas Edison Explains
Mon Jan 7, 6:30 PM - Mon Jan 7, 8:00 PM

Thomas Alva Edison is coming back to Fort Myers! The goal of his reappeanance is to enlighten our time by better explaining his.  
Born before the California gold rush and dying during the Great Depression, Thomas Alva Edison helped make America a world power, not with weapons but with insights into how all things work and how things can be made to work better.  He became the poster child of what America is supposed to be: a land of infinite opportunity.  He was a dreamer.  Under his watch, possibilities blossomed into realities.  His inventions include the fluoroscope, the alkaline storage battery, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the megaphone, the microphone, the cement house, the improved telephone, and the electric light system.  Edison wasn’t afraid of the dark; he just brought it to light. 
Mr. Edison is so hoping you will be at his presentation that he has promised to keep a light out for you.  
For more than twenty years, Hank Fincken has toured as a living history performer in Europe, South America and the United States. He has performed in theaters and at educational institutions, corporate meetings, Chautauquas, libraries, national and international conferences, parks, and cultural events as Johnny Appleseed, Thomas Edison, Christopher Columbus, Henry Ford, forty-niner J.G. Bruff, Francisco Pizarro, Prosecuting Attorney Richard Crowley (Susan B. Anthony’s 1873 trial), and now W.C. Fields. Because Hank incorporates the audience in every performance, each presentation molds itself to the unique interests of that particular group. Humor abounds. Each program is provocative, insightful, relevant, enlightening and entertaining. It’s art wearing a humanities tuxedo and a spinning bow tie.     Hank began his life of adventure first by serving in the Peace Corps in both Peru and Costa Rica. He later conducted research and gave live performances in twenty US states, Spain, Italy, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Ecuador. Each script took a minimum of two years to write and has been critiqued by scholars and theater professionals. Hank’s in-depth research assures historical accuracy. The crafted scripts, precise language, insights into both the past and the present, and skillful acting