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A local group known as Silence Dogood is confronting President Trump’s border czar and others with historic light displays.
Under the pseudonym "Silence Dogood," a group of artists projected anti-tyranny messages onto the Old State House in Boston Tuesday.
A quote-meme was shared on Facebook that claimed Franklin once talked about the importance of "freedom of thought" and "freedom of speech." Allow us to introduce you to Silence Dogood.
Borrowing the pseudonym “ Silence Dogood,” the pen name a young Benjamin Franklin used, the group gave a nod to Boston’s revolutionary roots with messages like, “We have a good track ...
1. Silence Dogood Ben Franklin knew all about faking it 'til you make it. At the age of 16, he apprenticed at his older brother's Boston print shop, publisher of The New-England Courant.
Writers are known for their words, but sometimes they’d rather not sign their real name to them. Many famous authors took on ...
Armed with high-powered projectors and Samuel Adams’s revolutionary spirit, the shadowy collective Silence Dogood has turned Boston’s most sacred landmarks into canvases for rallying ...
Silence Dogood has taken that concept and adopted it for Boston, and for the nation’s semiquincentennial, with thoughtful font and location choices.
Silence Dogood's first letter ran in the New England Courant on April 2, 1772. She (or he) was actually teenage Benjamin Franklin.
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Benjamin Franklin Was a Middle-Aged Widow Named Silence Dogood (And a Few Other Women) The founding father wrote letters in the voice of female pseudonyms throughout his life ...