from Jan 10, 2016 thousands join the search to find Chris
https://www.chronicle-independent.com/news/national/5-year-old-finds-decades-old-message-in-bottle-searches-for-author/MENDOCINO, Calif. With the help of his mom, a 5-year-old California boy has taken to social media to find the mystery author of a decades-old message he found in a bottle on New Years Eve.
Ryder Goggin was walking along the beach last week when he noticed something behind a log, according to ABC News. He yelled for his mom to join him thrilled that hed found an actual treasure in the sand.
The discovery turned out to be a message rolled up inside a glass bottle, with the cap rusted shut.
I didnt believe him at first, Ryders mother, Heather Baird, told ABC. He was really excited; he was yelling about it.
Baird had to work pretty hard to get it open, but when she finally did, she was amazed to see the paper inside was nearly perfectly preserved in plastic wrap. Ryder was a little less pleased.
When we opened it, he seemed a little disappointed because he wanted it to be a treasure map, she said.
But the contents of the note sparked a different kind of hunt not for treasure, exactly, but for the person who wrote it
nearly 30 years ago.Hi, my name is Chris, the letter reads. I am 10 years old and in the fifth grade. I live in Sacramento. Call me when you find this to let me know where it washed ashore.
The letter was dated
Sept. 5, 1988.Baird tried calling the number only to find it had been disconnected. So she took a picture of the letter and posted it to Facebook and Twitter with the hopes someone would see it and lead her to Chris.
To her surprise, thousands of people joined the search. The post has been shared more than 4,000 times, sparked a #findChris hashtag and inspired dozens of media stories. New York Seltzer, the company that manufactured the bottle in which the message was found, offered a free years supply of the drink to the person who tracks down Chris, Baird said.
While they havent found him yet, Baird said shed like to think the 10-year-old Chris who wrote the message was a lot like Ryder.
Chris had an adventurous spirit and he put the bottle on the water, and Ryder was the perfect little boy to find it, she said. I hope we find Chris I would just thank him for putting the bottle on the water and allowing us this amazing experience.
from May 4, 2019
https://fox17online.com/2019/05/04/women-find-messages-in-a-bottle-written-the-day-before-9-11/FENNVILLE, Mich.-- A mother and daughter stumbled upon an eery piece of history during one of their weekly beach walks along Lake Michigan.
“We always walk between these two parks right here because there’s always a lot of litter washed up," Amy Gasaway says.
Gasaway and her daughter Amanda Butler call themselves "beachcombers." They enjoy searching for beach glass, driftwood and other treasures on the beach at West Side County Park.
A couple weeks ago during one of their beach walks, they found something bizarre.
“As we were going through the debris, I was using one of the driftwood pieces," Gasaway says. "I kinda caught this yellow bottle top."
It was a Pepsi bottle. The women quickly noticed something about it that kept them from thinking it was just another piece of litter.
“It had a nice ‘Open me’ sign in it," Butler says. "So, as we got in to open it, we found a class project for an AP class of English out of Clayton, Indiana.”
Inside the Pepsi bottle were three letters. The first was written by a teacher named Diane Flint at Cascade High School in Clayton, Indiana explaining she had her Honors English students write letters and put them in a bottle, hoping they would be found and someone would write them back. The other two letters were written by Flint's students.
As Amanda and Amy were reading the two letters inside written by then 15-year-old boys Zachary Catlin and John Thomas, they
noticed the date they were written: September 10, 2001, a day before 9/11.
“I’m sure they had no clue whatsoever how the world was about to change in front of them," Gasaway says.
Catlin wrote that he wanted to be a geologist when he grew up. Thomas wrote about how he liked to play guitar and sleep.
The letters feel like the last tangible glimpse into a simpler time, before the lives of young Americans coming of age in 2001 were blindsided by what was suddenly an uncertain future.
“It really makes you wonder you know, what these young men have gone through since then," Gasaway says. “There’s been a lot of changes since 9/11, since they wrote these.”
Now, their mission is to find Catlin and Thomas to see how their lives turned out.
“We’re also curious at how many of them came back from their project, you know?" Gasaway says. "Is this maybe one of the last few out there? Were there every any found, you know? We do have a couple questions for them.”
FOX 17 is working with Gasaway and Butler to get ahold of the men who wrote the letters, along with their high school teacher. The women say they want to give their letters back to them. When they do, they also want to give them other treasures they've found on their beach walks.
from June 22, 2018
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/06/22/Message-in-a-bottle-travels-2915-miles-from-England-to-Canada/4921529674256/Message in a bottle travels 2,915 miles from England to Canada
June 22 (UPI) -- A girl who tossed a message in a bottle into the water at an English beach
received a reply saying the message traveled 2,915 miles to Canada.
Alexa Smith was visiting Cooden Beach in
October 2016 with her mother, sister and three brothers when they tossed messages in bottles into the water with their contact information.Smith, now 12, received a reply last week in the form of a letter postmarked from Canada.
The letter's author said she found the bottle in Halifax, Nova Scotia, about 2,915 miles from Cooden Beach.
"It's incredible. We never expected anything like this," Smith's mother, Roxanne, told the Bexhill-On-Sea Observer.
"This lady in Canada had written back, and it had Alexa's original message in the envelope," the mother said. "She wrote this lovely letter saying, 'I hope you have half as much adventure as this message did.'"
Roxanne said the woman did not include her own contact information so the family could thank her.
"Sadly she didn't include a return address, I think it was just a lady wanting to do a nice thing for a young kid," she said. "Alexa loves it. It's her prized possession now."
The mother said the message in a bottle thrown out to sea by her sons was previously found at a nearby Bexhill beach shortly after it was tossed. She said two more messages in bottles remain unaccounted for.
"Maybe we'll get another message in a few more years," Roxann
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