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mahatmakanejeeves

(70,762 posts) Tue Dec 5, 2023, 08:40 AM Dec 2023

On December 4, 1858, Chester Greenwood, inventor of the earmuff, was born.

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They can't all be earth-shattering.

A reply to 2022's post said that his birthday is celebrated in Farmington, Maine. So here we are.

Inventor Chester Greenwood was #BornOnThisDay, Dec. 4, 1858. Invented the earmuff (1873) age (15), patented a tea kettle, variation of the steel-toothed rake, an advertising matchbox + many other items & was a supporter of woman suffrage. Passed in 1937 (age 78) #RIP #BOTD #hunk

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Mon Dec 5, 2022: On December 4, 1858, Chester Greenwood, inventor of the earmuff, was born.

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On December 4, 1858, Chester Greenwood, inventor of the earmuff, was born. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 OP

Highly productive period of time for cold people. Ear muffs and side burns. bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #1

I believe the first Chester Greenwood Day was celebrated in 1977. bluedigger Dec 2023 #2

bucolic_frolic

(55,840 posts)

1. Highly productive period of time for cold people. Ear muffs and side burns.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2023, 09:02 AM

Dec 2023

Gawd it must have been cold back in the firewood days. Were log cabins even 50 degrees? And how did you heat a mansion? Loads of labor and firewood. No wonder coal caught on. Labor and soot.

bluedigger

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2. I believe the first Chester Greenwood Day was celebrated in 1977.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 5, 2023, 09:24 AM

Dec 2023

Some young punk named bluedigger won the youth division of a three mile road race around downtown Farmington, and almost fell on his ass multiple times, rounding every corner in the snow and ice. In later years we got national news coverage, but I was off to college by then. My hometown.

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