Recently, I was going through some storage boxes containing old papers and documents left behind by my mother, who passed away a few years ago. I came across a bundle of letters that were tied ...

Before he sets to work, before the first of what will be a thousand brushstrokes, each one fluid and articulated and occupying the space between artwork and industry, the sign painter wants you to ...

Pen pals and “snail mail” clubs are growing in popularity as young people seek reprieve from the endless churn of online ...

For the past few Thursdays, Associate Dean of Student Affairs Janet Lohmann has set up a table in the Lamarche Gallery at 4 p.m., and equipped the station with paper, pens, stamps and envelopes. The ...

Sometimes the journey is as important as the destination. So it is for Emil J. Polak as he strides into the Bibliothèque Méjanes here. It is the 728th library -- nearly all of them in Europe -- that ...

Each month, the Columbia Public Library offers selections from its collection related to a current best-seller or hot topic. Public Services Librarian Katherine Gale compiled this month’s selections.

Emailing, tweeting, texting — 20 years ago, these things were unheard of. Now, we can’t live without them. Although the advances in technology are amazing, we can lose some things along the way, as ...

the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...

Life is change, and one thing that has radically changed in the last half century is the art of letter writing. When my great-uncle traveled to Germany in 1897 to study, he wanted to let his family ...