After two years spent selling handmade wooden pens as a hobby, in 2009 Brian and Rachel Goulet launched Goulet Pens and made it their full-time gig. The two dove headfirst into the online community of ...

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Brian Goulet thought he would go into the real estate business after graduating from Virginia Tech in 2006. As the housing crisis closed in, though, he saw an opportunity to turn his pen-making hobby ...

In an age of screens and keyboarding, when kids hardly learn cursive anymore, fountain pens — along with their old-timey accoutrements like blotters, bottled ink and fancy nibs — are making a comeback ...