Fountain Pens, a childhood friendship
Fountain Pens, a childhood friendship Not long ago I discovered a small but passionate population who love fountain pens. Unlike most ballpoints, fountain pens are not meant to be disposable. When your fountain pen runs out of ink, you reach for your bottle of ink, and refill it. My interest in fountain pens stem from the fact that they were my first pens. That was a time when snail mail was just mail, and most people who wrote little else, did write letters, and if they didn’t use a pencil, they used a fountain pen, because ballpoints hadn't become popular yet. Starting with the closest: Lamy Safari, Kawaco Sport, TWSBI ECO, and TWSBI MINI. This was near the end of WWII, and like many other southern African Americans, my mom and stepfather and I moved north seeking jobs, and to escape the Jim Crow south. We moved to northern Illinois from Mississippi. Mom’s mother and sister had moved to Washington DC and later to Los Angeles, to be with other relatives who had m