In all the years we visited my dad's family, we never went inside Grandma Neva's house. I experienced one story about my family and especially this quirky grandmother. And then we found the letters. Neva saved hundreds of letters as she grew up. Finding them after her death led to the stories in this book-to Neva as a young woman and to generations of her family, living amidst the challenges and joys of their community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century