Benjamin Franklin accomplished much during his long life. His achievements, however, make an odd list. In addition to his ...

Reading specialists collaborate with publishers, school and district administrators, the Franklin Public Library and Plainville bookstore An Unlikely Story to select authors whose works align with ...

The Library Company allowed members—at first, largely male artisans ... free and open to the public. Some of its earliest holdings, such as Franklin’s original copy of Logic, or, the Art ...

BOONE, N.C. — The first thing you notice in Franklin Graham’s office is not the framed note from the president of the United ...

Residents at Friday’s annual Town Meeting will consider a $10.56 million budget and a $472,173 Community Preservation Act ...

While he has stepped down as the varsity boys’ lacrosse coach at Franklin, the seeds Lou Verrochi ... 11 a.m. — Still the last public school team to beat St. John’s Prep back in April ...

This concept extends back to Benjamin Franklin’s founding of the first public library in 1731. The reason for this, as historian Jill Lepore says in “Free for All,” is that Franklin believed ...

Founder of the Junto, a self-improvement society; of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first subscription ... heard of him after,” Franklin recalled); the public moralizer who refused ...

After launching a Social Security “war room” earlier this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running the numbers on how cuts to the financial assistance program for seniors could impact the Bay State.

The creations and inventions of Franklin's adult life are legendary and far-flung. He published the oft-quoted Poor Richard's Almanack, established Philadelphia's first public library ...

The town would also have to have “serious discussions about the possibility of completely closing our public library starting ... voters must first pass an override budget at town meeting ...

In his luminous new novel, Peter Geye gives us love and lust, God and science, heavens and deep water, light and dark and a cast of characters so vividly drawn you are in their minds, hearts, ...