They were locked away in the attic closet in the old family summer cottage in East Hampton, New York. Personal letters written a century ago - so carefully saved and undisturbed for so many decades - very recently rediscovered and conversing once again. Dorothy Hedges, unknowingly and unintentionally, nudges open this portal to the past. Each of her letters takes us deeper into another place through narratives that are ever more familiar and staggeringly authentic. We come to know Dorothy and to like her. These are her genuine words, hopes and greatest fears. Not stories about the past but...