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April 15, 2008

Ben, a real Renaissance man, is visiting Renaissance City

Say your high schooler is interested in physics and literature and doesn’t think she can study both –– and your middle schooler isn’t interested in either.

There may be a chance to get them both excited.

This week, school vacation for most Rhode Island students, they can learn about a man who did it all –– math, physics, chemistry, languages, literature, nation founding –– and did it well, having fun and helping others as he went.

“Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World” kicked off at the Providence Public Library yesterday, and the traveling exhibition will be in town through late May.

Included in the exhibit are some of Franklin’s original documents and maps, and paintings and drawings of his life.

A series of events is also planned for the length of the exhibit, see them all online. Of particular interest to kids may be Saturday’s Imaginative Inventions Workshop, where parents and their kids are invited to make something new out of recycled materials. The workshop is free, but registration is required.

The exhibit is sponsored by National Grid, the Rhode Island Freemasons and WJAR-10 with national support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was organized by the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary, Philadelphia, and the American Library Association Public Programs Office.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 6:30 AM | Permalink

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