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50 Year Old Message in a Bottle Connects Illinois Adventurer With Georgia Author

13 Thursday Feb 2020

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A Mysterious Phone Call, and a 50 Year Old Message in a Bottle

When he saw and heard the voicemail, Ken Henderson didn’t recognize the number, nor the voice. He was at work in New York City (“The Center of the Universe,” as Richard Kaplan calls it). The woman on the line said she was in Griffin, Georgia and then said something outlandish. “You’ve got to check out this post about a 1970 message in a bottle,” she said, “I think it could be from you.” A 50 year old message in a bottle? Could it be? Of course he had to return the call immediately.

Ken Henderson, Author of 50 Year Old Message in a Bottle from Jekyll Island

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1970 Message in a Bottle from Georgia Haunts Finder (My Dad!)

04 Tuesday Feb 2020

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My Dad’s Mysterious Find: A 1970 Message in a Bottle From Georgia

In 2018, my adventure-loving dad was grooving his way down a desolate Caribbean beach when he found this old bottle with a crusty scroll inside. It was mysterious. It was intriguing. It was clearly old and fragile (my dad, of course, is 3 of those 4 things himself!). Every bottle my family has ever found that looked like this has been from the 1970s. In fact, the last message in a bottle my dad had found was from 1970. Could this be another?

My Dad With The 1970 Message in a Bottle from Kenneth Henderson

My dad with a message in a bottle he found.

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Une bouteille à la mer – Seeking Pauline Baranger of Quiberon, France!

19 Sunday Jan 2020

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Une bouteille à la mer / A Bottle From the Sea…

Some messages in bottles are obviously messages – they contain eye-catching scrolls that bring to mind love letters and treasure maps. These bottled letters are made with care, and practically scream to beachcombers “PICK ME UP!!!” Others are not so obvious. Just look at the bottle below. Best I could tell, it looked like a map or directory of some sort. There was no visible writing – nothing to distinguish it from trash:

Pauline Baranger Message in a Bottle on the Beach

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The Tides That Bind ~ A Message in a Bottle Story

06 Wednesday Nov 2019

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Message in a Bottle Documentary – The Tides That Bind

Back in July, a dream of mine came true: A short documentary about my odd little hobby was born! Director Nicholas Natalicchio, a professor at Drexel College in Philadelphia, heard about my work when I was searching for Ray from Philly a few years back. He wanted to help, and not just with finding Ray. Nick’s vision was to create a documentary film that shared my mission of delivering long lost letters from the sea and making friends out of strangers in this improbable and lovely way. When he called me to discuss making this film, it sparked an adventure that took us on some wild rides over the next two years! I am so grateful for the experience, and humbled to be the subject of Nick’s film, The Tides That Bind.

I have to say, it is strange being the subject of a film – especially now that it is showing at festivals around the country. I’m just some guy!

At the same time, I am grateful for the opportunity to share my story with everyone who sees the film – but only because it allows me to tell the stories of the friends I’ve made through messages in bottles. I have found that they are are wonderful, interesting, curious, thoughtful, kind people. Watching cable news, you’d never believe it – but finding messages in bottles and meeting people on the other end has taught me that most people are good and kind and friendly. Meeting total strangers from all walks of life this way gives me hope, and reminds me that we all have more in common than not. We are not each other’s enemies; if anything, the forces that plot to divide us are the bad guys. If my story conveys anything, I hope it is this: The strangers all around you could be your friends if you just had a chance to connect. You don’t have to find a message in a bottle to test this.

The other thing about this film that is hugely important to me is that it gives me the chance to share with everyone what I mostly find when I go looking for messages in bottles: trash. Almost entirely plastic. I don’t know exactly what my place is in the movement to stop plastic pollution and clean up what can’t be stopped, but it is a movement I believe in deeply. Aside from cleaning up plastic trash from beaches where I beach comb, The Tides That Bind has given me my best chance to date to tell people about–and show–the shocking, depressing amount of plastic pollution I encounter on beaches everywhere I go.

That’s the thing about the tides that bind us – the tides tell stories and connect us all, but they also reflect back to us our relationship with the ocean and with each other.

Lastly, I am deeply grateful to Nick for agreeing to donate 10% of net proceeds from the film to the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Alagalita–and Captain Charles Moore in particular–were the first people I ever saw on television showing the world the exact bits and pieces of plastic trash that I had found blanketing shores everywhere I went. I saw Charles Moore on David Letterman’s show in 2010 showing viewers a poster board covered in everything I saw when I went looking for bottled messages: plastic lighters, toothbrushes, bottle caps, and more. Now, our little film may never actually turn a cent of profit (documentary shorts are not exactly huge money-makers!) but if it does, we will contribute at least something to fostering Algalita’s vision of a plastic-free ocean.

So that’s what The Tides That Bind is all about: a little magic, a lot of friendship, and a dream of a cleaner ocean.

I hope you’ll like and follow The Tides That Bind on Facebook, where you can keep up with screenings in case it comes to your area.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me all these years and for believing messages in bottles deserved a documentary! I hope you get to attend a screening – and who knows? I may just come too.

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1970s Message in a Bottle from Sunderland, Tyne & Wear Found

05 Friday Jul 2019

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Message in a Bottle from Sunderland, UK Found

This highly unpromising bottled note has been lying around my house since I found it a few years ago in the Caribbean. I suspect now that the message in a bottle had been sailing the high seas for decades when I found it – perhaps since the 1970s…

1970s Message in a Bottle from Sunderland UK

I know I should have opened it when I found it, but I had other bottles to attend to! And this one looked… well, miserable, wouldn’t you say?

Anyway it washed ashore on a deserted Caribbean island where I picked it up and that was that.

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Help Solve a “Hopeless” Message in a Bottle from Finland!

08 Wednesday May 2019

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Messy Message in a Bottle Found on a Rocky Shore

Once upon a time, waaay back in 2013, I was limping along a Caribbean shore with a hurt foot, when I stumbled upon this bottle that looked about as bedraggled as my foot felt. Just before this journey, I had tripped off of the curb in front of my house in a  lively flail, causing something in my foot to snap loudly enough to turn the heads of passersby. After that, the foot mostly hung limp at the end of my leg as I dragged it along behind me, and I made very distinctive tracks in the sand… So I was grateful for a break from walking to examine this apparently hopeless message in a bottle. Inside the bottle was not a “message,” exactly, but a discouraging wad of paper with some letters visible here and there.

Clint Buffington with hopeless message in a bottle on beach

I found this battered message in a bottle on a rocky shore…

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