Nursing

In an old family farmhouse outside small Delavan, Minnesota, Mike Hoffman is getting to know his mom a bit better. She died nearly 40 years ago, but through a stack of yellowed letters, Mike and his wife, Tami, are delving into a part of her life that they didn't previously know much about -- her life built upon her nursing studies at Mayo Clinic.

The framed handwritten recipe for pickles adorns a wall of Warren and Marilyn Bateman’s home in the hills of Maggie Valley, North Carolina. It was ...