Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Kitty Thuermer (Mali 1977-79) President Samia Suluhu of Tanzania is in the United States for two-week official visit to meet Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House. In her opening statement, the Vice President mentions the Peace Corps’ going to Tanzania was one of the very first group of Volunteers in August 1961. The opening greeting in D.C.:
Read MoreGotta love Ben Franklin
The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia — a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was . . .
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