Yesterday, NBC’s Today Show aired a feature story on the Iron Range city of Ely. A local resident wrote a letter to President Obama asking for a letter to put in the town’s 50-year time capsule. After a while, with hope fading, a beautiful hand-written two page letter from the president himself arrived in the mail. It’s a neat story:

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(h/t Bob Collins)