Before he made a fortune in the mid-1800s as a real estate dealmaker in Minneapolis, where a mansion and park now carry his family name, Samuel Chester Gale was a teacher in Holden. It was a short ...
HOLDEN — Early in 2020, the Gale Free Library received a cryptic letter, the contents of which, once deciphered, seemed too good to be true. The letter appeared to indicate that the library was the ...