Rix Quinn’s Morning Story: Ben Franklin
This column was originally scheduled for publication on June 16, 2018 and missed publication. A young 16-year-old Ben Franklin is apprenticed to his older brother James, a printer who also publishes the New England Courant, a Boston newspaper. Ben wants to write for this paper, but doesn’t want his brother to know. What can he do? Well, he writes a letter to the editor under the name of Silence Dogood, a widow. He doesn’t mail the letter, but instead slips […]
