[Special Coupe Frank]

I tuned-in around 9:15... right around the first Ford-Winton race, c. 1901.

It is a bittersweet story.... self-made American tinkerer-turned inventor who wants to make the world a better place, and in the process begins to (unintentionally) destroy the world he loves ( 19th Century rural America )...

As a child, I was a voracious reader, and loved to read biographies of historical figures; my favorites were people like Ben Franklin, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and so-on...

As an inventor/industrialist and social champion, Ford was in the ascendent between 1893 and 1916... and then he went into a sad, dark decline...

And no one suffered more than Edsel and Clara...

A long, sad end to such a great beginning...