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Let’s climb Chestnut Hill, shall we?
It was a very good October at Local 44, and we had an impressive list of letter (and postcard) destinations to reflect upon: Vatican City, Bangkok, Sheboygan, Svit, and Upper Darby, to name a very few. We wrote to The Pope (see … Continue reading
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28 at 44!
Twenty-eight Letters, that is–at Local 44, to give the full name of this month’s venue for the highly-esteemed-and-pressed PUBLETTERS. Our intrepid letter writers doubled the evening’s tally (we had 14 letters in our opening Tuesday) to 28 utterly sincere, ink-on-paper epistles. …Among … Continue reading
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“… to Boldly Go… To MANAYUNK…”
The atmosphere at Lucky’s Last Chance is nearly identical to that of Earth – or “Center City”, as some call it. There is a surface transport hub operated by S.E.P.T.A. just a short distance from Lucky’s. Our group will gather to take … Continue reading
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Tagged drinking and writing, good Philly pubs, handwritten letters, Manayunk, philly beer week, postage stamps, Publetters, Star Trek, the slow writing movement, United States Postal Service
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Manayunk is like, a Thing!
We came, we saw, we drawed! Yes, it was better in the original Latin, we know. In our debut at Lucky’s Last Chance, which overlooks Manayunk’s urbane Main Street, we made a very brisk start right out of the gate. We filled out … Continue reading
In the noisy, crowded pub, she picked up her pen…
… A-Ha’s one and only hit single was blasting out of the jukebox; Fergie’s Pub was rattling with chatter and laughter. But she heard only the words she was putting onto the page–and just as her group made to leave–she … Continue reading
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One For The Box!
We missed some of you at Fergie’s on Tuesday, June 7–for the first Publetters session there. We wrote to our kids, to Tig Notaro, to some, er, “associates” in L.A., and to Mom & Dad, to name a few–actually, tons … Continue reading
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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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Love Letters/Pub Letters on Valentines Day
Publetters is, as always, every Tuesday in February at DOOBIES BAR. But, on Feb. 14th, Valentines Day, in a special collaboration with the Rosenbach Museum of the Free Library, we are proud to offer LOVE LETTERS / PUB LETTERS. The Rosenbach will … Continue reading
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Tagged drinking and writing, good Philly pubs, handwritten letters, letter writing, Love Letters, Publetters, Rosenbach Museum of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the slow writing movement, VALENTINE'S DAY
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Do Be at Doobies!
February, we return to where Publetters all began–DOOBIES BAR. After a lovely month at Clarkville , we’ll spend Tuesday evenings at 22nd & Lombard in SW CC. Starts 2/2.📬 AND — there will be a special Love Letters / Publetters … Continue reading
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SAVE THE US POSTAL SERVICE join us in OLD CITY on TUESDAY, June 23, lunchtime! 