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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
Ahh, write now, before right now is yesterday!
Thanks for pal Greg B. for the lead to this beautiful photo series on disappearing US Post Offices in the deep South, written + photographed by Rachel Boillot: Click on the photo or the link below to see the whole … 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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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
Posted in Drinking and Writing, Uncategorized, VALENTINE'S DAY, writing in pubs
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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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
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
Please join us in our first-ever “suburban” Publetters! • • • • • • • At Tired Hands Brew Cafe (it’s free, of course)
We don’t think we’ve gone too suburban, really; Ardmore , PA is a true small town, and we are very happy to set up our stamps and envelopes and pens inside the Tired Hands Brew Cafe at 16 Ardmore Ave., a … Continue reading
Posted in Drinking and Writing, Publetters, USPS, writing in pubs
Tagged Ardmore PA, brew pubs, Casa Papel, craft beer, drinking and writing, good Philly pubs, handwritten letters, letter writing, Letters of Note, National Association of Letter Carriers, paper & stamps, philly beer week, pub writing, Publetters, Tired Hands Brewing Company
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SAVE THE US POSTAL SERVICE join us in OLD CITY on TUESDAY, June 23, lunchtime! 