Got your attention?
The big TM (text messaging) craze of the late 1700s was letter writing in the New World that was to become the United States of America. The correspondence of founding father John Adams with his wife, Abigail, has long been held as a rich and informative romantic legacy of a couple who endeavored together as the nation comes to grips through revolution, formation, and the high ideals that led to a hallmark in forging the new democracy, embodied by the U.S. Constitution, and later, its Bill of Rights.
With the HBO debut of the television mini-series on John Adams this Wednesday, the New York Times reports in a story by Stuart Elliott (3/11/08, page C8), a unique sponsorship partnership with the US Postal Service to promote a return to letter writing. It's called "Using a founding father to promote the art of letter-writing".
The show should be good regardless. HBO is known for its quality movies for TV; Paul Giamatti (Adams) and Laura Linney (Abigail) are 'first-class' puns the USPS representative quoted, Joyce Carrier (I'm not making this up) in the article.
You can view several video clips of the show along with the article.
I'd love to hear how good (or not) the show is ...
1 comment:
I liked that they considered the rights of humans to not be held in slavery, foreshadowing the rift that split the states 60 plus years later in the Civil War, and women's place in society.
I'm looking forward to watching the HBO movie.
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