On a recent morning, children hunched over dry - erase boards and traced
curlicue letters with colored marker during a morning cursive lesson in Harolyn Slaughter's fourth - grade classroom at St. Francis.
The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years.
The Pepsi - Cola sign in Long Island City — a dazzling swirl of red
curlicue letters that evokes innocent days of summer, heavy industry in Queens and a spectacular disregard for the waterfront in the mid-20th century — is now an official New York City landmark.
Not exact matches
I loved to draw and paint, and the
curlicues I drew on the ends of all my
letters led to a family joke that I must be the reincarnation of a Medieval monk.
At the time I couldn't imagine that papercuts by themselves would be very marketable (I've since met a number of papercut artists who proved me wrong), but remember those
curlicues on the tips of my
letters?