“Although there are 26 letters in the alphabet, there are only four basic shapes that make up the structure of every lowercase cursive letter.

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory.

The dying art of cursive writing is the focus of a new exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum.