Take a tour of the Franklin Branch with Miss Mary Jo! Miss Mary Jo welcomes us to the Franklin Branch, showing the new book section as well as DVDs, computers for public use, adult non-fiction and adult fiction. The Benjamin Franklin Branch is located at 13651 E McNichols Rd. in Detroit--at the corner of Gratiot and McNichols. It opened to the public in January 1950, the first new branch in the city in 18 years. The Franklin Branch ushered in a new era of "modern" branch libraries for the city,

16 reactions | Take a tour of the #detroitpubliclibrary Franklin Branch with Miss Mary Jo! Miss Mary Jo reads one of her favorite stories and then shows us around the Children's Section, highlighting the books for beginning readers, new books, DVDs, fiction, non-fiction as well as teen fiction including graphic novels. | Detroit Public Library | Facebook

138K views · 421 reactions | The disappearance of the Franklin expedition was the worst disaster in polar history. Two ships and 129 crew vanished, and it's taken centuries to piece together the few traces left of this doomed attempt to map the Northwest Passage. Learn more about the ill-fated Franklin expedition and how it's still being explored today: https://on.natgeo.com/4iUxU5v Host: Halley Brown | National Geographic History | Facebook

In 1845, the Franklin Expedition set sail on a quest to chart the Arctic - and vanished without a trace. 250 years later, a shocking revelation leads to the ships' discovery underneath the ice, and the gruesome fate of the explorers is finally revealed, in this episode of History’s Greatest Mysteries: Solved, a new History digital original series. | HISTORY