In folding chairs with books in hand, Iciar Rivera and her three young children sat in the shade of the ficus trees outside the recently shuttered Benjamin Franklin Library bungalow. A handmade sign ...
Iciar Rivera is turning her frustration into action by forming a new Friends of the Library group in Boyle Heights, an effort to advocate for the unique needs of three public library branches serving ...
In 1723, a teenaged Benjamin Franklin created his first printing piece, a broadside elegy recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania. Detail of “The Elegy on the Death of Aquila Rose,” ...