2. COURAGE – The Courage of Sarah Emma Edmonds
the wilderness: swimming, climbing, canoeing, and hunting. She brought with her equal parts confidence and skills, filled with a spirit of adventure and a sense of right. She could just as easily shoot a shotgun as she could recite the Bible – chapter, and verse. She ran far from home to the town of Moncton, where she found a job as a milliner — a maker and seller of women’s hats. But as the months passed, it became clear to Sarah that this was not the job for her. Her desire for more led her to a new job in a new city, Saint John. It also set her on a path where her courage would be tested and strengthened for the rest of her days. He spent the next many years creating various everyday items out of rubber: small household items, furniture, medical instruments, and more. Applying his idealism (#23) may have pleased Goodyear the most, writing, “I have taken great satisfaction in trying to invent and improve articles of necessity and convenience for the use of man.” He showed off his creations in a grand display he called the “Goodyear Vulcanite Court” and took it to the world’s biggest fairs: London 1851, Paris 1855. These events won him great praise and awards: The Great Council Medal in London, The Grand Medal of Honor in Paris, and the Cross of the Legion of Honor — presented to him by the Emperor of France — in recognition of his services as a public benefactor . The first steps down this path took her to her new employer, a book publisher. Her job was selling Bibles door-to-door. But instead of peddling God’s Word as Sarah Emma Edmonds, she Because Goodyear dared to do what others considered impossible, rubber makes the world go round: from the tires on millions of cars to the soles on billions of shoes to the covers of trillions of wires.
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