Images of America: Edison NJ- By Stacy E. Spies Music/Art James Mortimer travels from Devon

James Mortimer travels from Devon to London

it’ll wreck any chance of a partnership

They drink and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together

And sometimes lines are made to be crossed

Images of America: Edison NJ- By Stacy E. Spies Music/Art James Mortimer travels from DevonEdison, named for its most famous resident, inventor Thomas Alva Edison, can be called the birthplace of modern life as we know it. It was here at his Menlo Park complex that Thomas Edison created the incandescent electric lightbulb and 300 other inventions, providing residents with not only a place of employment but also a source of national pride. Known as Raritan Township until 1954, Edison was a slow paced agricultural community until the