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Article: Fort Myers is Red Sox, history and fun.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- January 16, 2000
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Where can you go see a Red Sox exhibition game, take the kids ice skating, hit the beach or watch wild manatees glide through a sleepy tropical lagoon? Fort Myers, Fla., of course.
You can even learn some Thomas Edison history here, too.
The inventor of the lightbulb - and hundreds of other modern wonders - moved to this tiny fishing village in 1886 and was won over by the region's Garden-of-Eden beauty.
Fort Myers is nicknamed "City of Palms" for the many palm trees that Edison planted, but it's changed dramatically since the great inventor's day.
Edison had one of America's first prefabricated houses; it was built in Maine and ...