One month ago, on Jan. 23, this country celebrated National Penmanship Day. You wouldn’t know it. When I went to school in the 1950s, we had serious penmanship contests, with monetary or medallion ...

A hundred years ago when I was a child, I learned how to write cursive letters with fancy tails and leafy twists. I loved it. I also remember the double-lined paper we used to make circles and more ...

The dying art of cursive writing is the focus of a new exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum. The question is: What will it mean to the kids who can't read what's on display? It's a real conundrum, ...