SCOTCH PLAINS — The Scotch Plains Public Library will present “Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story,” featuring scholar Alexandra Rimer, on Monday, March 4, at 7 p.m.
Ms. Rimer is the author of the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, who became Thomas Edison’s second wife when she was 20 years old. With unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs and letters, Ms. Rimer was able to reveal how much of Edison’s muchmythologized public persona was, in fact, shaped by Mina.
Despite the challenges the young socialite encountered in becoming a wife to a difficult, distracted man and mother to his wayward children, Mina dedicated herself to ensuring Edison’s lasting fame as the most famous inventor inAmerican history. Ms. Rimer has recovered Mina’s long-overlooked role in the Thomas Edison story — one of sacrifice and determination.
Registration is requested but not required and may be done at https:// www.scotlib.org/event/edison/. The Scotch Plains Public Library is located at 1927 Bartle Avenue.
