35 Year Old Message in a Bottle Found in Alabama River

The year was 1982. Ronald Reagan was President. John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane” was on the radio. Everyone was still enthralled with Stephen Spielberg’s latest movie, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. In late autumn, Julie Watson, a third grade student at Eura Brown Elementary School in Gadsden, Alabama, tossed a message in a bottle into the Coosa River out behind her school, according to The Gadsden Times. When she threw that bottle in the river, she thought “the message might be found a few feet away from where she put it in the river, in a month or two,” and soon forgot all about it. Continue reading →