A chance encounter on a train leads painter Christine Ward to wonder whether Orin Pierce, her beloved college friend, believed dead for two decades, may actually be alive. As she begins to track down
"...a witty and readable (and fetchingly illustrated and glossed) excursion through the history of handwriting..." —Cullen Murphy, The Wall Street JournalSteeped in the Palmer Method of Handwriting sh
In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: "It was a bit like art, a bit