Sunday, January 20, 2008

Get Lit with the Raconteur

This sounds like a good time...

NOON, SUN. FEB 11
THE RACONTEUR GET LIT TOUR
Field Trip
Group meets at The Raconteur and proceeds en-masse to New York City (via NJ transit). Stops on tour include The AlgonGet quin Hotel (home of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of NYC writers/wits that included Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley & Harpo Marx), McSorley's Old Ale House (the oldest Irish tavern in Manhattan and the focus of several now classic articles by New Yorker author Joseph Mitchell; Brendan Behan and ee cummings were known regulars), The KGB bar (named "best literary venue" in NYC by New York Magazine and The Village Voice), Chumley's (a celebrated former speakeasy, notable scribes who imbibed there include Anais Nin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Norman Mailer, Eugene O'Neill, and J.D. Salinger), and The Whitehorse Tavern (where Dylan Thomas famously drank himself to death one night in November 1953). $35.00. Cost of tour includes literary history/bon mots, train fare and one round of drinks. 25% discount for all Raconteur Society Members*.
I'll be back from Vegas for a few days by then (I have a feeling the date is meant to be Sunday, Feb 10th, since the 11th is a Monday). Maybe I'll be able to get it together enough for Kathy & I to go. But it's equally likely that I'll be drinkied out by then (or at least will need a weekend to recover before the next weekend's Tardy Gras party. Doesn't mean it's not a good idea for you, though...

Rob

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