Print passion: Girl Scout field trip
Girl Scouts look at one of only three Ramage Presses still working in the United States. (From left to right) Ella Handelman, Mia Felt, Micah Worner, Cecilia Mansilla and Phil Soinski as Ben Franklin. Photos by Jared Felt It’s one thing to read about Benjamin Franklin in a history book. It’s another to see him in a “most unusual” exchange. “I don’t know,” said the boy, flummoxed by a simple inquiry about his name. The boy spoke English well enough, just not this particular brand of English. The words were more or less familiar, but the phrasing was as odd as the clothes of the inquisitor. “What is thy name, master?” The boy stared ahead, uncomfortable in front of the small crowd gathered around the bespectacled figure of Franklin, the printer’s apprentice, whose breathtaking list of inventions practically includes America itself. “Well it’s on your shirt,” said Franklin re-enactor Phil Soinski. “Is it Master Herbalife? A most unusual custom, writing your name on the front of your shirt to remember it.” It’s that interactive, humor-filled approach to history that makes Franklin’s “Electric” Birthday show at the International Printing Museum in Carson so memorable, not only for the…
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