After graduating from Brown University, Thurber took a teaching role at Worcester Latin Grammar School, before becoming a ...

I was born on the cusp of the transition from typewriter to computer. Some of my older friends would take typing classes during the summer break. Some of them even considered it a career option. Many ...

I grew up on a manual typewriter, the same one my mom used to write articles for Life Magazine in the ’50s and ’60s. It was a small portable in a beat-up canvas case, and you had to hit the keys hard.

Tom Furrier, owner of Cambridge Typewriter. Photography by Nathan Bajar Tom Furrier still remembers his first day at the Cambridge Typewriter Company. He was 25 years old and his friend’s dad had ...

Tom Furrier greeted a customer walking through the door of Cambridge Typewriter, a tiny shop crammed wall to wall with old typewriters. The customer, Ron Lewis, had brought in a small portable ...