OXFORD, NY (WBNG) -- Retired Oxford Academy Music Teacher Merritt Russell was looking for a new hobby. He decided to give writing in American Ornamental Penmanship a try. Merritt Russell found the ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Developed in the 1820s by Platt Rogers Spencer (1800-1864), Spencerian script is a beautiful form of penmanship that became the first nationally adopted system of handwriting in America. Long before ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

Master Penman Michael Sull is an expert in Spencerian script, a style recognizable by some prominent logos such as Coca-Cola and Ford. He discusses his work as Reagan’s calligrapher and discusses why ...

Words are an essential means of communication, yet how we put them down in writing has been continuously shaped over time by technologies, cultural and business needs, and education. Once a universal ...