LETTS, Iowa — A program on growing chestnuts commercially in the Midwest will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on February 11 at the Letts Community Room in Letts, Iowa. Topics to be covered will ...

Chestnut trees used to be called "the Redwoods of the East," and they made up 35 percent of northeastern American forests. But in 1904, a fungus began to appear, and what's called "chestnut blight" ...