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Archive of entries posted on December 2022

Art in the Capitol

28 December 2022, 6:03 pm

The Washington Post today published an exclusive report surveying the works of art in the U. S. Capitol showing slaveholders and supporters of the Confederacy as well as enslaved people. It begs the wearying search for the location of the new line, to be drawn somewhere between the Robert E. Lee statue erected in a …

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Keep Thy Shop

18 December 2022, 4:02 pm

Keep Thy Shop, a stained glass panel installed in my library/office October 2022 in honor of Benjamin Franklin’s career as a printer. Images edited and screen printed from J. G. Chapman’s engravings for Rev. H. Hastings Weld’s 1849 edition of BF’s Autobiography, texts from Poor Richard, including “Keep thy Shop, & thy Shop will keep …

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Filed under Artworks | Tagged stainedglass

Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet

13 December 2022, 3:59 pm

This book would be fine as a first book on Franklin, because the author starts from not knowing much about him, and touches meaningfully on every fundamental facet of Franklin that I can think of. He goes on to cover his topic very well. Most Franklin fans are not particularly interested in what happened to …

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Filed under Books | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Books, Philadelphia

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