Aug. 19—JEFFERSON — A painting honoring Platt R. Spencer was dedicated to Ashtabula County on Thursday afternoon in the commissioners' meeting room. Spencer, for whom a Geneva elementary school is ...

Handwriting instruction is on the verge of a renaissance. Michael Sull of Gardner, Kan., is a master penman in Spencerian script; past president of the International Association of Master Penmen, ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series on pens and penmanship. As beautiful writing instruments became more available in the 1800s, an interest in creating beautiful penmanship also ...

Generations of school kids learned penmanship; whether future generations will learn to write their ABC's by hand at ALL, however, is very much in doubt. Our Cover Story is reported now by Tracy Smith ...

Well … first you have to know how to write! What’s going on? Are our some of our educators really serious about no longer teaching handwriting — penmanship ...

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 ...

MARIETTA – On a recent afternoon, students in Wendy Rehl’s third and fourth grade class were diligently bent over handwriting books at Veritas Classical Academy on Harmar Hill, which opened this ...

Handwriting instruction is on the verge of a renaissance. Michael Sull of Gardner, Kan., is a master penman in Spencerian script; past president of the International Association of Master Penmen, ...