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Your Words / Our Stamps / This Tuesday
These are some beautiful old stamps, yes? Still, their real meaning doesn’t emerge until they are fastened to an envelope bearing a letter. That’s where you come in (the door of the Grey Lodge Pub, to be exact) on Frankford Avenue. We … Continue reading
That time between the mail’s arrival and the reading…
… goes about like this…https://www.instagram.com/p/BDySQhhzVPB/?taken-by=publetters
Hither, Yon & and Beyond
(Yes, there’s no way to ignore the sad news from Ankara and Brussels; we can only reach out to others, any way we can, and make sure they know we are listening. Words on paper are just a small bit of … Continue reading
February Marches On!
We survived Valentine’s Day at a packed Doobies Bar! –including some inspired couples from the Rosenbach Museum’s LoveLetters/Publetters collaboration. (The Rosenbach offered a hands-on tour of vintage love letters from the Civil War era and beyond, then directed said visitors towards Doobies so they … Continue reading
Posted in Drinking and Writing, Publetters, Pubwriting, Uncategorized, VALENTINE'S DAY, writing in pubs
Tagged drinking and writing, good Philly pubs, handwritten letters, letter writing, National Association of Letter Carriers, paper & stamps, Publetters, the slow writing movement, United States Postal Service
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PUBLETTERS 2016 SKED SHAPING UP!
Okay, we have reached out to all sorts of bars to the north, the south, the east and the west and repeatedly “Gotten to Yes”, as the Harvard Biz School might put it. Our calendar is more than half-full, so … Continue reading
Best wishes to the Monk’s Bunk!
Well, that’s a first! We wrote to Portland and Seattle and Torrington CT, and a host of other places… then we wrote to Russia and, finally, to the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. A good night’s work, one … Continue reading
Warm up near the pizza oven tonight!
Cold is relative; think about the warm emotions a nice letter brings out on the second reading. Join us tonight (19 Jan.) for the third Publetters of January at Clarkville, 43rd & Baltimore Ave., where the pizzas rival the craft beers, or … Continue reading
SAVE THE US POSTAL SERVICE join us in OLD CITY on TUESDAY, June 23, lunchtime! 