Meet Ben Franklin

The Wintrust Bank/Loyola Station Branch is sponsoring a program presented in partnership with the Friends of the Edgewater Library and the Edgewater Branch Library to kick off National Friends of the Libraries Week.

Historical re-enactor Bob Stark takes the audience back in time to meet one of our country’s Founding Fathers — an accomplished writer, scientist, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Benjamin Franklin is the only person to have signed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War.

The program takes place Sunday, October 19, from 2 to 3 p.m. at Edgewater Branch Library, 6000 N. Broadway.