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Bethany Sanders's avatar

I love these! Also, sometime I want to hear about how you accidentally joined the FFA club. :)

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

That is definitely a story that wants to be written, Bethany!

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Heather Cadenhead's avatar

You never fail to pull me into your world with your writing, Elizabeth. Thanks for sharing!

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

Thanks for those words, Heather. I'm glad you enjoyed these!

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Reagan Dregge's avatar

Brett read Nikola Tesla's autobiography before it was cool. He wrote me a message in code after we went to see the movie The Prestige. (In that message, which I eagerly and easily decoded, he asked if we could be more than friends, but this is entirely besides the point of my comment.) What I came to say is I guess Thomas Edison was plagued by a scarcity mindset and took the credit for a lot of Tesla's ideas, kind of like Marconi did with your Stubblefield.

I feel pretty lucky myself to have you and Brett to put the record straight when it comes to science.

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Alicia Pollard's avatar

These are so fun 😂 I love the strategy of giving the Murray Time and Temperature phone number instead of your own . . .

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Brooke Shorey's avatar

best (ink)tober ever.

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

Glad you enjoyed it!!

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Joshua Caleb Hutchens's avatar

The time and temp number. 😂 I can’t believe it’s still kicking. And yes, I remember 753-6363.

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

Did they also teach you about Nathan B. Stubblefield over in Marshall County?

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Joshua Caleb Hutchens's avatar

I think we did during an inventors unit in science. But you forget that the historical marker for his birthplace is right in front of the family business. At some point, I had a book with biographies of local heroes, and he was one of them. So I had a mild obsession with his story around the 5th grade.

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

I don’t think I ever knew that about his birthplace marker! Nor that you were a Stubblefield expert. I should have been consulting you for this story!

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