We’re partnering with
Handwriting the Constitution
for National Handwriting Day, 2025
Every year, on John Hancock’s birthday, the United States celebrates the amazing cultural phenomenon of handwriting. Handwriting communicates — it expresses ideas, emotions, thoughts, instructions. Handwriting organizes — by making lists, plans, goals. Handwriting teaches — it helps us to learn and to think. And it connects us to thousands of years of cultural history.
There are many ways to celebrate Handwriting Day, and they all involve exercising that basic literary skill that you probably don’t remember learning for the first time. You can write a letter, postcard, or just a note to a friend or family member — a thank you, a get-well-soon, a love letter or a business letter. You can learn a new handwriting style, or brush up the one you use. You can write out your favorite poem, quotation, or document.
At Handwriting Success, we are celebrating Handwriting Day 2025 by joining the ongoing events of Handwriting the Constitution. (Read the NYTimes.com story here.) Find out more about this non-profit organization created by Morgan O’Hara, and organize your own event www.hanwritingtheconstitution.org.
See below the event that is being sponsored by Handwriting Success in collaboration with Handwriting the Constitution. It is free and open to the public. Spend quality time getting to know this foundational document of self-governance by copying it out by hand, either at this event, on your own or in a group, in public or in private.
You can find out more about how to participate, or create your own local event at www.handwritingtheconstitution.org.
Handwriting the Constitution for National Handwriting Day event:
Wednesday, January 22, 3pm to 5:30pm. Multnomah County Library Hillsdale Branch, 1525 SW Sunset Boulevard, Portland, OR 97239. More information and updates: https://multcolib.org/events-classes/handwriting-constitution
A PDF of the complete up-to-date text of the U. S. Constitution can be found here.