Thomas Jefferson writhed under the criticisms of the Continental Congress as it reviewed his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Seeing this, Benjamin Franklin took him aside. “I have made it a rule,” he said, “whenever in my…
In 1728, at age 23, Ben Franklin composed his own epitaph: The Body of B. Franklin, Printer (Like the Cover of an old Book Its Contents torn out And shrift of its Lettering and Gilding) Lies here, Food…
Ben Greenblatt, popular piano stylist, has played for every kind of society party, but this week marked the first time that his audience consisted of monkeys. He ‘gave’ at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens just to see how the…
