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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago. In recent days, I discovered Ken Burns’s two episodes on Benjamin Franklin that aired in April 2022 on PBS.
The sculpture depicts Benjamin Franklin and the Founding Fathers at the signing of the Declaration of Independence.