Being Benjamin Franklin
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Fab Confab
Franklin confers with Thomas Jefferson inside Carpenter's Hall. J Nathan Bazzel has played Jefferson for the past eight years and is one of a cast of colonial characters that work for Archbold, including a Betsy Ross, a George Washington, a William Penn, and a Phillis Wheatley
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