July at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates is highlighted with the return of Henry Ford’s Birthday.

Celebration and Estates Inventor’s Summer Camp as well as a variety of other special programs throughout the month of July. The schedule of programs and events include:

– New Exhibit Opening: “Music, Movies, & Dance with Edison & Ford” July 2009

Opening mid-July, this special exhibit focuses on the interests and inventions of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford related to music, dance and the movies. The exhibit will include a collection of phonographs, projectors and other artifacts connected to sound, music and the movies. The exhibit will also include viewing of early Edison silent films, performances of period music on the Edison piano and other related program activities throughout the year. The exhibit is free with any paid Estates admission and Estates Members are free.

– Estates Inventor’s Summer Camp – programs for grades 4 through 6 and 1through 3. Space is still available. Each day campers will be presented with a different mystery and they will only be given normal, everyday items to solve them. Registration is still open for summer camp at the Estates for a one of

– Quilting Demonstration, July 25, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Quilter’s from the Southwest Florida Quilter’s Guild will be demonstrating quilting techniques in the Edison Caretaker’s House.

– Happy Birthday Henry Ford, July 30, from 9:30-11 a.m. The Estates will be celebrating the 146 birthday of Henry Ford and the recently completed restoration of “the Mangoes,” the winter estate of the Ford family. The morning 20 celebration includes cake, a presentation on the Ford Model A & T cars, and a special preview of the Estates traveling school presentation, “Invention, Innovation and Green Science: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and the Automobile.” Estate members free; non-members, adults $20, children $11 and includes a tour of the homes, gardens, lab and museum

The Estates is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For additional information, call 334-7419 or visit the Web site at: www.efwefla.org.