A MONTHLY UPDATE FROM INSIDE FIELD NOTES
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Hi, it’s Jim from Field Notes. This is the second edition of our new monthly mail, containing miscellaneous stuff that doesn’t really fit anywhere else. Please respond to this email if you have comments, questions, or suggestions. |
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TLDR Version: Tree Tales, Diego Rivera, HQ, Geology Teachers, Stamps!, A Special Offer. |
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One of our favorite parts of creating Quarterly Limited Editions is doing research about the topic at hand and discovering new things. Sure, we make notebooks, but after all, we’re here to learn. |
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In another direction, I came across a fascinating indigenous Ojibwe legend, told many ways, of a boy named Winabojo, and how birch trees got their scars, and why lightning, apparently, never strikes a birch. |
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“ I spotted this detail in the Diego Rivera mural currently on exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and I thought you might be interested.” A quick note from a customer led to a lot of questions and some, but not all, answers. Check it in “Dispatches.” |
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The Shop at HQ in Chicago is open Thursdays and Fridays from noon to 7pm and it’s been great to see everyone who has stopped in. We have special weekend events planned for November 17-18 and December 16-17 and will have details soon. Meanwhile, we’d love to see you at 401 North Racine Avenue. |
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In our previous Staple Day mail we reached out to Junior High and High School geography teachers, and heard back from a ton of them. |
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Since then we have shipped out thousands of free “Great Lakes” Edition Memo Books (they’re all gone now btw) to classrooms all over the upper midwest and received lots of photos and thank-you notes in return. I’ll share one comment from one teacher who shared them with his Sophomore class, “A notebook is not something to be made cheaply, consumed and thrown away. It is an artifact made by a craftsman, with meaning, to be the repository of our creativity.” Thanks for that, VM. |
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Man, there are a lot of stamp collectors out there. We’re part of a fun program with the United States Postal Service in which new stamp releases are offered in a set with custom Field Notes Memo Books. The stamps are affixed to the notebook covers and cancelled with the First Day of Issue postmark. |
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Thanks for subscribing to our email list. Here’s an offer we’re making just for you. Buy anything on our site before Monday (10/23) and, at checkout, you’ll be prompted to add a special, free “Kraft Plus” Single Memo Book, in Red or Blue, to your order. No coupon codes, no minimums, no bull. So you know, we have just a few hundred of each color available, and when they’re gone, they’re gone. |
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Maybe use this as an inspiration to get started on your gift list. Oof. Is it too early to start talking about holiday stuff? My bad. |
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I hope you find this new Staple Day* Mailing format valuable and/or interesting. We just finished editing three sets of “Practical Applications” and sent our Winter Limited-Edition off to the printer today. It’s just about the Field Notesiest Quarterly Edition ever, and we can’t wait to send them, and the related subscriber bonus items, out into the world.
Sorry I wrote such a long email. I didn’t have time to write a short one. |
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* Coined a long time ago in the Field Nuts Facebook group, “Staple Day” is traditionally observed when a writer reaches the exact middle of a Field Notes Memo Book, revealing the metal fasteners which bind the cover and the interior pages together. |
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