Ben & Me
Eric Weiner
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Chapter 2
- When young Ben and his friends were caught stealing stones from a construction site, Josiah Franklin didn't "correct" (read "whip") young Ben like the other fathers did to their sons, but instead taught him the memorable lesson "that nothing was useful which was not honest." Again that word: useful. Franklin's passion for it, I realize, was born not in his adopted town of Philadelphia but here in his birthplace. #6975 •