Algernon D'AmmassaJul 20, 2025

Doing a story like this – about an error etched into a local monument – requires sympathy and humor without victims. Was most grateful to speak with the fellow behind QuoteInvestigator.com for this piece, helping set the record straight without umbrage.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_faff1d70-a889-4244-889d-423ebb4383dc.html

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This university mural features a Ben Franklin quote he never said

SILVER CITY — The J. Cloyd Miller Library, named for a past Western New Mexico University president, looks over Silver City from a hilltop on the university campus.

Albuquerque Journal
Augustus Brown 🌈Aug 18, 2024
"Free beans, did you hear this? She's going to hand out free beans. I mean it. She's a radical left lunatic. My advisors told me, she's going to hand out free beans! She's a communist and a marxist and a fascist and she will destroy our country." #FreeBeans #USPol #FalseQuote