The author comments, "I am still not sure why Rebecca's letters grip me as they do, but I read each one with a growing sense of family, of love, and of gratitude that she allowed us an intimate look back more than one hundred seventy-five years into the minds and hearts of her people. There were more than one hundred fifty letters, stained, torn, and faded, but neatly folded and protected in clear plastic envelopes. I can almost see the writers laboring...