This is the initial Franklin category; we expect to branch off from this many times.
Two recent books about Dr. Franklin and the British Empire are reviewed in the [London] Times Literary Supplement. Carla J. Mulford BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THE ENDS OF EMPIRE 426pp. Oxford University Press. £41.99 (US $65). 978 0 19 938419 8 and George Goodwin BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN LONDON The British life of America’s Founding Father 365pp. …
Dr. Franklin adored numbers, and playing with a device called the Magic Square. Carrying on this tradition, Professor Aziz Inan has published Ben Franklin Turns 310 on the University of Portland Beacon website. Happy Birthday, Franklinian numerologists!
From Yahoo TV: Why was Breaking Bad star Dean Norris MIA during the show’s triumph at the Emmys on Monday night? He decided to go fly a kite instead. Well, that’s one of the things he could have been doing anyway, as Norris missed the Emmys festivities because he was off in Romania filming his …
A nice article by Blaine McCormick is online at Forbes.com. Financial wisdom, and clearing up of a famous misquote — excellent!
Franklin and His Travels The Historical Association of Tobyhanna Township sponsored an interesting-looking talk on Franklin’s travels. http://tobyhannatwphistory.org/calendar.html#jul17 The grave of Polly Stevenson is not far from this area; perhaps this association or the speaker, Bruce Denlinger, could be involved in learning more about that.
Unwind us a wine bar just off Hyde Park Square in Cincinnati. The fireplace area is decorated with at least one from Benjamin Franklin, “Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” For more, see the Unwind Home Page. Image seen at news.cincinnati.com.
Historian Caroline Winterer has published this article on Dr. Franklin in the December 2013 issue of Smithsonian. To search the magazine’s site for Franklin, follow this link.
Secretary of State John Kerry will be picking up a yellow Labrador retriever puppy to be named Ben in honor of Ben Franklin, who’s known as the “Father of the American Foreign Service” and for whom the State Department’s diplomatic state dining room is named. – See more at boston.com.
The uploading of scanned copies of our Gazettes is underway. The overview page is under the Articles Wanted menu. A searchable guide to contents of each issue is clearly wanted. There may be an index in the membership somewhere. I put up a link to the first PDF file to reach the website. The scans …
American Literature Research and Analysis Web Site Under the direction of Dr. Jim Wohlpart, the students at Florida Gulf Coast University and the University of South Florida in Fort Myers have created the following Web Sites in order to provide substantial research on and analysis of various literary works. These pages provide: reviews of …
