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I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers.
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The old letter’s ink has faded over time, but its message has been preserved, thanks to Dave Kithil donating to The Museum in ...
City officials plan to have the “Augusta!” logo redesigned so any city materials it adorns, including online digital materials, can be read by people with visual disabilities and comply with looming ...
Florida House Bill 921 would require all students in second through fifth grade to learn to write in cursive. Why is this law ...
Free to enter, April 16th-20th ... The opening exhibition of “sacred collections” includes artifacts, gowns, photos, letters and more. Continues through November 30th. Donations welcome ...
Although Pétrus is now among the most famous wines in the world, it gained its exalted status relatively recently; before World War II, it was virtually unheard of, and finding large-format ...
Newly released footage appears to show a man ramming the gates of a Glendale police station with his truck on two separate occasions less than one month apart. Arizona state schools chief Tom ...
There’s an elegiac undertow to the concerto Elgar described as ‘a real large work, good and alive’. And, laced with telling self-quotations, Rachmaninov’s orchestral swansong ends on a note of fierce ...
Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler’s playful Fourth Symphony – and plays the violin too, as Kurt Weill retells the myth of Orpheus in his own, utterly original style. A jingle of sleighbells, a flurry of ...