Before emails, text messages, and social platforms, there was paper. Paper for letters. Paper to write thoughts on and to share moments with friends and family, near and far. The thoughts and feelings conveyed on letters, then and now, mean more than the world to most. Letters have the ability to show appreciation, the strength to bring people back to a moment in time they may have never known about, and so many other experiences. Letters connect people. To each other. To the past. To the present. They are the most relevant way to bring people together and allow a glimpse of the past or speak to the “now”.
I write letters and cards. I have kept letters and cards written to me. I have letters/cards from back in the day before social media was a thing, when writing notes and folding them to hand off to friends was the thing to do. When you wrote your letters to friends while you were at college, excited to open your college mailbox with expectations of a returning card or letter.
The most sentimental moments are when I go back and read those letters or cards – bringing me back to that moment, often laughing or smiling thinking back to that time.
Check out the stories below of instances where letters brought people together, and back together.
Students deliver thank you letters to healthcare workers in St. Louis County
The students are learning how to write letters during their writing unit. Mixing that skill with kindness month, the students decided to write letters for healthcare workers in their community. They were able to bring that skill to life as they handed the letters personally to the healthcare heroes Tuesday afternoon.
“Their kindness challenge was to be appreciative and say thank you to people around them, and they took the initiative to think about the healthcare workers here at DePaul and how they ultimately help to keep us at school,” Grave Burgos, a fourth-grade teacher said.
Woman finds post-WW II love letters in Sudbury, Ont., and gains relative she never knew about
A Sudbury, Ont., woman says that in the process of finding lost letters written between her grandparents decades ago, she also learned about a family she never knew existed. The letters were between her grandparents just after the Second World War, from 1945 to 1949. Her grandfather was in the military and stationed overseas. He wrote regularly to her grandmother, who lived in the Sudbury area.
Southwest Airlines Employee Tracks Down Owner Of Lost Letters Written By Her Late Mother 80 Years Ago
A woman who had lost a satchel full of irreplaceable letters written by her mother in the 1940s, got them returned to her by a determined Southwest Airlines employee.