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Massachusetts Student's Message In A Bottle Found In France 26 Years Later
By Ben Hooper
Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A French man cleaning trash from a beach found a message in a bottle that had been authored by a Massachusetts fifth grader 26 years earlier. Benjamin Lyons wrote the mes- sage as part of an assignment for science teacher Frederic J. Hemmila's class at Sandwich's
Forestdale School in October 1997.
The messages written by the class were insert- ed into bottles and dropped into the ocean by a boat captain who was Hemmila's friend.
Hubert Eriau, 71, said in his reply to the school district that he typically spends his morn- ings fishing and cleaning up beach trash in Les
Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, France. He said he came across the mes- sage in a bottle on Aug. 11.
Carol Archambeault, a 6th grade science teacher in the dis- trict, said other messages in bot- tles from Hemmila's class have been found over the years, including one in Greenland.
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