The Reader’s Notebook: Chester Greenwood

December 4, 2017 — Chester Greenwood, of Farmington, Maine, invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15. He reportedly came up with the idea while…

By Greg Jenkins

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December 4, 2017

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December 4, 2017 — Chester Greenwood, of Farmington, Maine, invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15. He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating and he asked his grandmother to sew tufts of fur between loops of wire.

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Greg Jenkins

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Greg Jenkins has been the Operations Director at MSPR since 1999. Greg is a 1996 graduate of Morehead State University with a BME in Music Education and received a Masters of Science in Industrial Technology in 2008. Greg oversees training, scheduling, and evaluation of the student board operator staff, preparation of the daily traffic logs and serves as weekday classical music host. He is also the webmaster of the MSPR website and maintains MSPR's webstreaming and podcasting.

The Reader’s Notebook: Chester Greenwood

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