Reading biographies of presidents and other famous people was of great interest to me as a young child. The one I remember most vividly was that of Benjamin Franklin. Born in Boston, Benjamin Franklin was an ambassador of goodwill around the world but was also a printer, writer, inventor, and scientist. Three hundred years after his birth in Boston, Franklin is still of great interest in Philadelphia where there is a reconstruction of his home. The Library of Congress has created a web site that pays to homage Franklin and chronicles his involvement in the Continental Congress and the Treaty of Paris. The most interesting part of the site is the document area which includes his design for a stove, his 1775 plan for a colonial confederation, and the founding charter for the American Philosophical Society.
