https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/nyregion/coronavirus-letter-writing-brooklyn.html
Why This Professor Is Writing Letters for People Feeling Blue
With a typewriter and a mailbox, a sidewalk project explores the art of consoling those who need good news.
Brandon Woolf takes dictation from Quentin Miller for a letter to his Nanna. Credit...Amr Alfiky /The New York Times
By Deborah L. Jacobs
Oct. 30, 2020
On a recent foggy morning, Brandon Woolf was sitting on a foldable chair, in front of a foldable table, next to a Brooklyn mailbox, writing letters on a 1940s-vintage portable Royal typewriter. He was dressed in a navy blue T-shirt emblazoned with the U.S. Postal Service logo. A chalkboard sign in front of him explained the project to passers-by: “Free Letters for Friends Feeling Blue.”
Brandon Woolf takes dictation from Quentin Miller for a letter to his Nanna. Credit...Amr Alfiky /The New York Times
By Deborah L. Jacobs
Oct. 30, 2020
On a recent foggy morning, Brandon Woolf was sitting on a foldable chair, in front of a foldable table, next to a Brooklyn mailbox, writing letters on a 1940s-vintage portable Royal typewriter. He was dressed in a navy blue T-shirt emblazoned with the U.S. Postal Service logo. A chalkboard sign in front of him explained the project to passers-by: “Free Letters for Friends Feeling Blue.”
