TUPELO – The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to “Quill Pen Writing,” a Junior Ranger program held at the Parkway Visitor Center at 10 a.m. Saturday. Join a park ranger, ...

On a Friday morning in October, Nancy Floyd sits in a chair in her Charlottesville, Va., studio, examining the 100 or so goose feathers arranged in the glass jars on her work table. She explains that ...

A.J. Jacobs has been writing with an old-fashioned quill for a year. He argues they allow for slower, more contemplative thinking. Writer A.J. Jacobs wrote his manuscript using a quill and ink, ...

The height of a desk has changed since the 18th century. That's not because people are taller, but because we have changed the way we write. A quill pen and ink were used to write on a surface about ...