2021 July 17th: Postcards and Notecards

 Our second event at the 2021 Farmers Market was on July 17th, featuring postcards of Town Hall reflected in the pond above Converse bridge.  

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The postcard: This free Letters Trellis postcard features Winchester Town Hall as reflected in Mill Pond above the waterfall from Mystic Valley Parkway. Turned upside down, the postcard photo shows Town Hall as right-side up, perhaps as viewed from a curtained window. You are invited to “turn upside down” the tradition of sending a postcard from afar; instead send news from your hometown area. Stop by the Letters Trellis tent to pick up the postcard. We’ll stamp and mail any cards completed at our writing desk and left with us at the tent.

Photos of the Letters Trellis activities on July 17:

Conor and Rachel writing their postcard at the writing table.

Calligraphy notecards were also given away; here are some samples:

2021 Season at the Winchester Farmers Market begins June 19th.

A guest writes her letter at the writing desk between two trellises. 

We also made about 20 personalized calligraphy notecards for visitors to the booth, to

encourage them to write a short note if a letter seemed to be a big challenge. 

These are available at no charge, one to a customer.  Keeping the original and making copies

to write and send can make one special note card go a long way.

Letters at the JFK Library

https://www.jfklibrary.org/letter-writing

February 19, 2021 at 11:30am-12:30pm - an online program will present on letters in the library.

Personal letters in the John F Kennedy Presidential Library.

Over 1,100 letters between John Adams and Abigail Adams. 

ISG "in the studio" with Rayna Lo - suggestions for writing on stationery you create

 Make your own stationery, with ideas to make them attractive.  

 

The original article is on the ISG website:

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/programs-gardner/studio?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210212ShenWeiUpcomingProgram-LunarNewYear&utm_content=version_A

https://www.raynalo.com/ 

Health Assisting Students Write Letters to Residents

https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/record-citizen/2021/01/13/whittier-tech-students-connect-wingate-residents/4144378001/

Whittier Tech students connect with Wingate residents

Community Content

Whittier Tech sophomores in the health assisting program are working to stay connected and learn more about their community throughout the pandemic thanks to a new pen pal program between the school and a local assisted living facility.

Shortly after Thanksgiving, 16 Whittier Tech sophomores began exchanging letters with the same number of residents at Wingate Residences at Haverhill.

Seniors Receive Letters From "Little Ones"

The Process

1. Supervising adults sign up for Letters from Little Ones.
2. WH SeniorLink emails the adults information to share with their children about what they might like to put in a letter.
3. Adults whose children are participating in Letters from Little Ones mail their children’s letters to the WH SeniorLink team.
4. WH SeniorLink’s social workers then review the letters to ensure that they are anonymous and appropriate, and forward the letters to individual seniors.
5. The letter makes a senior’s day.

https://www.whseniorlink.org/letters-little-ones#:~:text=WH%20SeniorLink%20is%20partnering%20with,early%20brain%20and%20language%20development

https://www.whseniorlink.org/letters-little-ones#:~:text=WH%20SeniorLink%20is%20partnering%20with,early%20brain%20and%20language%20development

Senors interested in receiving letters can also sign up. According to the website:

Older adults interested in receiving letters through the program can contact WH SeniorLink at (917) 740-2194 or at letters.little.ones@whseniorlink.org.

Letters Trellis commented in NYT!

 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.”