PPG makes a $20,000 donation to the Thomas A. Edison Birthplace Museum in Milan, Ohio.
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Renarde Wood, of North Ridgefield, painting the first coat on the ceiling of the sitting room of the Thomas A. Edison Birthplace Museum.
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Milan mayor Steve Rockwell reading a proclamation. Local PPG employees painted and landscaped the Thomas A. Edison Birthplace Museum in Milan, Ohio as part of a corporate effort to improve communities. PPG donated the paint, paid the necessary professional painters, sponsored a science program for local third graders and made a $20,000 donation to the Museum.
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Dave Kuhn, PPG plant manager, of Huron, Ohio.
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Ted Bradfield, one of the professional painters from Textbook Painting from Lakewood, Ohio, hired by PPG, painting the door to the Edison Birthplace office.
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Third graders from Edison Elementary School, including Katee Bentley, left, Jack Pounds, third from left, Elijah Woods, and Katelynn Brant try on the prismatic glasses given to them by Beth Colbert, of Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh's Science on the Road.
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Third graders from Edison Elementary School, including Ella Booth, left, Elijah Woods, third from left, and Katelynn Brant, try on the prismatic glasses given to them by Beth Colbert, of Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh's Science on the Road.
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Exterior of theThomas Edison Birthplace Museum.
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Matthew Butler, of Monroeville, and some of the other 25 volunteers from PPG Huron plant paint the office.
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A group from the Museum gather to sing "Thomas A. Edison, Miracle Man", by George M. Cohan at the conclusion of the event. From left: Laura Silkwood, Mary Jo Weilnau, both of Milan; Audrey Rose, of Willard, Lois Wolf, director of the museum, and Skip Corris, of Elyria.
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James Harris, of Sandusky, left, and Christopher Pudzer, of Berlin Heights, painting the exterior office.
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Lois Wolf, director, Thomas A. Edison Birthplace Museum.
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