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 ...

The Zanerian, based in Columbus, Ohio, was one of several schools that taught penmanship and ornamental script until the early 1960s, and students wrote out their own diplomas as their final exams.

Ornamental penmanship, the article explained, "was the main course in most business colleges back in the days when the typewriter was in the state of infancy." ...

The Campaign for Cursive non-profit group has launched its Cursive is Cool contest to help encourage the art of penmanship in young kids.

This ornamental penmanship, or ‘the art of beautiful writing’, has a distinguished place in the world of fine arts, just like painting and sculpting.