The Life and Dreams of Thomas Townsend Brown

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a few months ago a YouTube producer named Jesse Michaels did a documentary about towns and brown based largely on my book so I'll share with you now the thumbnail sketch of Brown's life that opened that nearly 2hour documentary Thomas Townsen Brown was born in Zanesville Ohio in 1905 to a wealthy family as a child he would electrocute the soil with charged rods so worms would come to the surface counted as zanesville's second Edison by the local paper when he made his first Wireless Telegraph at 12 years old and like Edison and Einstein he did poorly in school from a young age Brown dreamed of interstellar travel and alien contact Paul shatkin documents an intimate exchange townzen had on a sailboat with his soon Tobe wife Josephine someday men will travel in space just as easily as we are sailing now great ships will silently push away from Earth just as easy as the sailboat pushed away from the dock