13 Wednesday Sep 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, News
Anyone who has ever renovated an old house knows it involves a bit of archaeology. Who installed this ceiling fan? Why are the walls insulated but not the ceiling? What lunatic placed a light switch inside the shower? Old houses are a grab-bag of choices made by previous owners, some perplexing, others delightful.
Clarke Elsby knows this well–he directs a team of technicians for Richardson & Starling contractors in Dumfries, Scotland.
12 Saturday Aug 2017
Posted in Adventure, Friendship, message in a bottle, plastic, Pollution
There are a few kinds of message in a bottle stories I am a sucker for. Near the top of the list are those involving kiddos, and those highlighting the plastic pollution plague in our ocean. This story does both!
Rachel and Olivia, 12 and 9 respectively, each sent a message in a bottle while on a family outing in Brittas Bay, Ireland, near Arklow, according to BBC Wales.
Rachel, left, and Olivia, right. Photo: Mythen Family / Shemazing.net
09 Wednesday Aug 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
Another fascinating and mysterious message in a bottle has been discovered on Australia’s west coast! The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports that Michael Thompson discovered a 35 year old message in a bottle on a remote beach in northwest Australia around Mundabullangana Station.
Look at this thing!
35 year old message in a bottle recently discovered by Michael Thompson. Photo: Michelle Stanley / ABC.net
29 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in message in a bottle, Mystery Message, News
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history, Inspiration, Japan, Lt. Col. Eugene J. McNamara, message in a bottle, military, News, Stars and Stripes, Yokohama
According to an article published by Stars and Stripes on June 15th, 2017, a 70 year old message in a bottle has been discovered in the Hotel New Grand in Japan’s Yokohama Harbor during renovations. The message dates to the years after the war when the US occupied Japan. Now, the hotel is searching for McNamara’s surviving descendants, if he has any, to connect them with this piece of their family history. As a military message in a bottle from the era of post – World War II, this bottled note is especially intriguing.
Whiskey bottle with McNamara’s name on the front, and his business card within. Photo credit: Erik Slavin / Stars and Stripes.
The front of the business card simply lists McNamara’s name and rank. The brief note written on the back of the business card is pretty straightforward: Continue reading
25 Tuesday Jul 2017
Posted in history, message in a bottle, News
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Edinburgh, history, Living Memory Association, message in a bottle, News, Scotland, Time Capsule, Viewforth
Living in the world of messages in bottles, there’s a certain level of coincidence that comes with the job. That’s what makes it so cool 🙂 But occasionally something happens that knocks even my socks off! I mean, if the starting point is an 83 year old message in a bottle, you know the story is gonna be good…
Laurence Reid, an Edinburgh resident who recently turned 90, spent his working life as a joiner, constructing the wooden elements of buildings and the like. According to a story published by the Edinburgh Evening News, he recently decided to donate an old carpenter’s plane to the Living Memory Association, which is not exactly a museum, but an organization that nevertheless keeps the past alive.
While there, Laurence and LMA worker Miles Tubbs, struck up a conversation. I can’t imagine the conversation they had that led to this next moment–but somehow Miles got the idea to show Laurence an item the Living Memory Association had recently acquired–a message in a bottle.
The message in a bottle at Living Memory Association. Photo: SWNS.com / Daily Mail
22 Saturday Jul 2017
Posted in Friendship, message in a bottle, Pollution, Science
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2015, Adele, Cambridge New York, Climate Change, Don Lehman, Donald Trump, Friendship, Hoosic River, Inspiration, message in a bottle, News, Owl Kill, The Post Star
A lot of famous people’s names end up in messages in bottles, and to that list we can now add Adele and Donald Trump.
Don Lehman, crime and county government writer for The Post Star in New York state, was fishing in the Hoosic River last week when he found a message in a bottle!
The message, from Evan Hutchinson of Cambridge, New York, is dated 2015, and strikes me as a truly intriguing find.
Evan’s message reads: Continue reading