SALISBURY, MD — Audiences have a rare opportunity to see one of the most unique American musical instruments played in concert as the Peter and Judy Jackson Chamber Music Series presents glass armonica musician William Zeitler. Performances are 7 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, November 13-14, in the Great Hall of Salisbury University’s Holloway Hall. Benjamin Franklin invented …
This morning I received an email that a comment needed approval. It was Spam, some automated thing. The setting that new comments require approval worked — I received an email, and did not have to discover it personally. Long term, more than one person could be registered to approve or disprove comments. This will allow …
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 …
The website findagrave.com contains 106 million grave records. Within the site, you may have to be logged in with a (freely available) personal user name to see it, but the Franklinians Virtual Cemetery offers a collection of graves associated with Benjamin Franklin, his parents, some associates and his descendants.
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 …
openlibrary.org has the full contents of an 1814 publication of Franklin’s Way to Wealth online here, readable as text or PDF. archive.org has the same pamphlet viewable gloriously here, with the bookplate of the Children’s Book Collection of the Library of UCLA and Elvah Karshner viewable inside the front cover. The alphabetical list of quotes starts on …
The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, hosts a superb online exhibition called Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer by James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass on their website here. The LCP Home page is at www.librarycompany.org.
There is a nice article about Franklin’s quotes used in The Way to Wealth at a site called Pick The Brain. The author enumerates 78 proverbs from that essay, divided half as Industry and half as Frugality. The Library Company of Philadelphia has a fine online exhibition that discusses this essay here.
There seem to be three levels of content: Pages are relatively static things, like the home page here. Posts are entries added from the separate interface. This is a post. Categories are assigned to posts, so they can be pulled in logical groups. This post will have category Website, and I will put a website …
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