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1. Farmers Almanac -- Farmers' Almanac
   Ray Geiger served as the Farmers’ Almanac's longest-running editor, from 1934 until shortly before his death in 1994. In 1955, Geiger moved production of the Farmers' Almanac from Newark, New Jersey, to its current headquarters in Lewiston, Maine. Today, his son, Peter Geiger, Philom., continues the legacy, along with Managing Editor Sandi Duncan, Philom. Duncan is the first female almanac editor in United States history.
2. Farmers Almanac
   Rich in American heritage, steeped with tradition, the Farmers’ Almanac is one of the oldest, most respected publications in the country. Bob Farmer is available to address your audience and bring this national treasure alive with his unique down home style of humorous storytelling. Bob travels extensively to inform, motivate and entertain audiences all over the country. Like the Almanac, Bob’s talks are laced with anecdotes, remedies and a liberal dose of his unique, down-home humor too.
3. Farmers Almanac -- Farmers Almanac Tv
   Farmers Almanac TV is a magazine show broadcast throughout the USA on public television. The magazine-style show covers fascinating personalities, unique events and admirable endeavors from both the familiar and remote corners of the North American landscape. Peppered throughout are hints and tips that span a dozen varied lifestyle categories -- gardening, cooking, natural cures, weather and others -- taken straight from years of actual Almanac pages. The show is hosted by
4. Farmers Almanac -- North America
   The almanac says the weather across the US "will be unusually stormy and active across much of the country" in November and December. Colorado will see four major storms between November and year's end, and might see a white Christmas according to the almanac. The Northeast will be pounded by three significant snowstorms in December, it says.
5. Farmers Almanac -- Old Farmer
   The Old Farmer's Almanac (still in publication today) was originally published in 1792. Robert Thomas was the Old Farmer's Almanac's first editor and owner. Within three years circulation had raised from 3,000 to 9,000 and the cost of a Old Farmer's Almanac was about nine cents. On an interesting note, Robert Thomas only added the word "Old" to the title in 1832 and then promptly removed it. However in 1848, two years after his death, the new editor and owner put the word "Old" back.
6. Farmers Almanac -- New Jersey
   The Farmers’ Almanac was founded in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1818 by editor David Young and publisher Jacob Mann. Astronomer Samuel Hart Wright succeeded Young in 1851. Over the years, the Farmers’ Almanac has had seven editors.
7. Farmers Almanac -- Winters
   LEWISTON, Maine - Keep your boots, long johns and snow shovels handy this winter if you live in the East, the Farmers’ Almanac’s forecast suggests. Residents of the West... can look forward to a milder winter this time around.
8. Ben Franklin -- Almanacs
   Franklin once created a list of 13 virtues to live by. This baker's dozen included temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. The reader will see these virtues emphasized again and again in these quotes, many culled from Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack."
9. Farmers Almanac -- Peter Geiger
   Over the course of its long publication history, the Farmers’ Almanac has acquired the status of a “household name.” As a result, it receives an enormous amount of national publicity. Editors Peter Geiger and Sandi Duncan grant hundreds of interviews to television, print and online media each year.
10. Ben Franklin
    Ben Franklin was the first to discover that lightning is electricity when he experimented with his kite. False. It was his theory, but Franklin wasn’t the first to prove it. He proposed that lightning was electricity in an anonymous publication in 1748. Three years later, he published instructions on how his theory might be proven. Some French experimenters followed them and proved the theory in May 1752. Transatlantic communication being what it was in the 18th Century, Franklin thought he was the first to prove his theory when he carried out his kite experiment in June 1752.

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