As a contractor, Kyle Carter often finds glass bottles and other surprising items at job sites, but his recent find stands out for its historic relevance. Six months after finding a note nailed to a ...

The first thing to know is that J. André Smith and Mary Curtis Bok were friends. Great friends. The second thing to know is that they wrote letters. Lots of letters. Those facts have unlocked the ...

While in her early 70s, Carter Catlett Williams found a treasure trove of letters written by the father she lost when she was not quite two years old. The letters were in a box in her attic, having ...

It’s become something of a tradition, on New Year’s Day, to reprint old letters to the editor from Star Tribune days gone by.