A feather quill pen sits on a table in the House of Representatives at the Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Vandalia, Ill.
A feather quill pen sits on a table in the House of Representatives at the Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site Thursday, March 5, 2009, in Vandalia, Ill.
God bless the ball point. i couldn’t imagine scribbling down notes using one of those things, pausing intermittently to dip in the ink well.