MIDDLEFIELD — Those who visited Lyman Orchards this weekend navigated through a piece of Americana, trying to escape a Benjamin Franklin-themed corn maze honoring the founding father’s kite-flying ...

It was June 1752 that one of the most famous and dangerous weather experiments may have been conducted. Most of us have seen the artist's rendering of the scene and heard the story of Benjamin ...

“If the government wants poor children to thrive, it should give their parents money.” That simple idea, the New York Times reported, has fueled a national push to provide low‑income families with ...

On a dark, stormy summer night in 1752, Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with a key attached to the string waiting in anticipation for lightning to strike. The dramatic bolt would harken the discovery of ...

(From left to right) Thomas Jay Ryan (playing Benjamin Franklin) and Noah Keyishian (playing William Franklin) in “Franklinland” Credit: Jeremy Daniel When you think of famous scientists of the early ...