Benjamin Franklin

We went to a lecture tonight about Benjamin Franklin at the Back Mountain library. It was fascinating. The lecturer said that all the records of his meetings with the Junto club he organized soon after he came to Philadelphia, the minutes of the American Philosophical Society back to the early 1700s, the documents relating to the first library in America that Franklin founded and almost all of his correspondence still exist. Most of his papers are digitized and available online. I've also been reading a biography of Franklin to prepare myself for this lecture. I've underestimated both his scientific contributions and the importance and extent of his political activities. You don't get the full story when you get your info from a children's book called Ben and Me which features a mouse narrator.