Date 22/12/2017 - News People
the de Peyster family of Wellesley, Massachusetts were gifted a late '60s Olympia De Luxe from actor, director and typewriter aficionado Tom Hanks. The de Peysters have never met Hanks. But the writing machine arrived on their doorstep last Saturday after Julia's husband, Nick, wrote the actor, unprompted, to ask for one. The de Peysters had recently gone to see "California Typewriter," a documentary about artists and writers who continue to work with the largely obsolete machines.