In his column “Time to embrace cursive again” (Feb. 4, TribLIVE), Tom Purcell writes: “Because ink dripped when the quill was lifted from the paper, it made sense to connect letters in words ...

By the late 1800s, publisher and educator Austin Norman Palmer from Fort Jackson, N.Y., developed a new cursive style that was dubbed "The Palmer Method," according to the NMAH.

News Cursive slowly scribbled out of N.J. curriculums as computer skills gain value in schools Published: Jun. 17, 2012, 11:00 a.m. By Jeanette Rundquist/The Star-Ledger ...

If you, like so many adults educated in the past few decades, do more “connected printing” than graceful cursive, and you want to give learning cursive a try, this is the book ideal.

If you had any trouble, don’t despair. The death of cursive has not been exaggerated. And if writing all of your office memos by hand for a day feels too daunting, I have a tip: If you’re on a ...