a bit of photo history, albeit slightly mis-named

Waterville, NY • click to embiggenOn our return trip from down-state, where we attended college boy's (make that former college boy) graduation ceremony, the wife and I took the long way home just to see what we could see.

While I was looking at other stuff, the wife spotted this historic marker that marks the spot of George Eastman's birthplace in Waterville, NY. The house is no longer in residence in Waterville - it was moved to the grounds of The George Eastman House / Museum in Rochester, NY quite a few years ago. It has since been moved to the Genesee Country Village and Museum.

One of these days I'll have to return to Waterville and re-photograph the marker with Kodak film. It seems like the right thing to do.

Comments

[the wife]

I guess i have become a photo-geek by association - i found it hysterically funny that the sign said that George Eastman was the "inventor of Kodak." Due to my decade plus immersion in photo-discourse (or monocourse) with g et n, I know that "Kodak" was not invented, although George had many inventions, and acquired many more patents through acquisitions. He also invented the word kodak. But I realized that i am now full of pretty arcane knowledge, to find that sign laugh out loud funny.