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Hello and welcome back to the fourth and final installment of my conversation with Ben Franklin expert Dr. George Boudreau.

Now storytelling and history are important tools for us to look back on who we were as well as learning about who we can be.

Dr. Boudreau, what do you think is the benefit of looking back on Ben Franklin as a young person and exploring that part of history?

Well, I love the idea that it connects for kids, that it's a way that they can see that he wasn't just the old man standing posing for statues all the time.

But he was a kid who was intelligent and ambitious and in his own special way, hard working and committed, very committed to his community and that this all grows out of that.

It's a hard time to be a kid, you know, kids today are living through a lot, but maybe to remember, you know, others earlier have lived through a lot too.

One thing I didn't talk about is constant presence in Benjamin Franklin's young life was war, constant war with the French by and sisters in Canada.

This is going to shape him and Indian massacres and warfare is going to be a part of his life nearly every year of his life for 84 years.

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When I was a little boy, there was a man on TV named Mr. Rogers, who I remember, I don't know if you're clear you're probably too young to watch Mr. Rogers.

No, I grew up on Mr. Rogers.

Mr. Rogers once said something that I think you should have gotten him a Nobel Prize and that was he quoted his mom and she said when you see things going wrong, when you see bad things, which we see a lot today,

with the attack on the US Capitol last year, with COVID, with people being hurt because of their race.

When you see bad things, look for the helpers and so there are always possibility that we can follow Franklin's experience and look for ways that we can be the helper.

There's certainly a lot of opportunity, there's certainly a lot of need right now.

What would you say are his most lasting contributions to our modern world?

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