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The duel was a “clumsy, almost comical affair,” according to historian Kenneth Lawing Penegar in his book “The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin: A Prelude to the American Revolution.”

Hugh Lawing considers himself an independent who leans toward the Republican Party.

“It’s a long way away and it’s up in the air,” Lawing said.

Attempts to evoke the period are distractingly strenuous; if you didn’t know “lawing” was slang for wearing a badge, you will after its first dozen uses.

College student Daisy Lawing spends a lot of time sitting, but says she doesn’t have much choice.