After 26 years, Makenzie Van Eyk (nee Morris) was very surprised to hear that a letter she had written for a class project, had turned up at the school.

Recently, however, she found a new treasure: a message in a bottle. "I've never found one before, and I've been here for ...

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A young girl and her classmates came across a message in a bottle, only to find out that the bottle's previous owner wasn't a stranger. Scarlet Van Eyk, a fourth grader at St. John the Baptist ...

We found a letter that you wrote ... Roland St. Pierre, the teacher who assigned the message-in-a-bottle project back in 1998, is now retired. But he remembers coming up with the idea after ...

Then, she and the rest of her classmates tossed their messages in bottles into a lake. Now, 26 years later, Makenzie is ...

Coker said she plans to respond to the message and throw it back in the water for someone else to find. She wrote a message of her own: "Found at South Padre Island, Texas December 7, 2024.

At the time they started the message in a bottle assignment, Van Eyk said, the school had just installed its first computer lab — so the students typed their letters. “Having a computer lab ...

A local, by the name of Tony, made the discovery while on a walk with the bottle containing a letter inside. “Your curiosity has paid off,” the letter read. “Thank you for recovering this ...

HANDOUT The letter also noted that the lens and machine ... rather — by stashing another bottle message in the same hole in the wall. “Sometime in the future, perhaps, we will be able to ...

Northern Lighthouse Board A photo of the letter found inside the bottle "It was like touching ... Related: Massachusetts ...