"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you were dead...either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."
- Benjamin Franklin
 
More than 200 years after his death, the timeless wisdom of Benjamin Franklin lives on through an award-winning, authentic portrayal of the famed author and inventor by Ralph Archbold. Today, after addressing more than 7,000 audiences as the alias of the elder statesman, Ralph Archbold has earned a following of his own: he was chosen as the official Ben Franklin for the City of Philadelphia, and became the primary spokesman for America's Constitutional Bicentennial Celebration. More recently he's been featured as Ben in the the city's celebration, "200 Years of Benjamin Franklin's Genius." He is also the official Ben Franklin for the University of Pennsylvania, Freedom's Foundation, and The Franklin Institute in his predecessor's homeland.