I’m not going to lie, I don’t really need to know how to cut and make a quill pen from a goose feather. No one does anymore. But! I was completely fascinated by the process of it. It’s funny ...

Arts Mother Goose For more than 20 years, quill-pen-maker Nancy Floyd has kept the Supreme Court in fine feathers.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Copp family used these quill pens in their home in Stonington, Connecticut during the 18th and 19th century. Quill ...

WASHINGTON — Before the days of Blackberries and instant messaging, lovers often sharpened their goose quills, dipped them into homemade ink, folded their letters into little oblongs and sealed ...

The quill pen that Admiral Lord Nelson wrote his last, unfinished letter on HMS Victory two days before the Battle of Trafalgar in southern Spain has sold for £10,000.

But by and large, letters have gone the way of the goose-quill pen. Of course we get plenty of letters at the Clarion Ledger. A few weeks ago, we received an unusual one.

While others may think of the invention of gun powder or the development of the atomic bomb as the most woeful moments in human history, my own choice is the abandonment of the goose quill pen ...

n the southeast corner of Wales, Queen Elizabeth’s calligrapher etches out intricately curved and shaped words with a carefully-cut goose quill pen. He dips the finely sharpened point into in… ...

The least controversial elements of the project are the many examples of pure calligraphy—words themselves taking center stage, expressed with all the precision and beauty that a goose quill pen ...

This steel lock and key were salvaged from the cell where Thoreau spent a night in jail for tax resistance in 1846. Concord Museum One of Thoreau’s goose quill pens, with a note from his sister ...

In “Here in the Dark,” author Alexis Soloski nicely incorporates character development in the plot that accelerates into the noir, according to book critic Oline H. Cogdill.