To win tickets, do as Alexander Hamilton and other Founding Fathers did, students told — write a letter

In an age of social media posts and hashtag movements, writing a letter to a politician might feel old fashioned, even quaint.Still, nearly 700 Utah teens recently took to pen and paper — okay, keyboard and word processor — to draft letters to their elected leaders in the preferred medium of Alexander Hamilton himself. The founding father was known for writing essays, articles and letters, many of which have been digitized by the Library of Congress. So when the touring company of &l