Feb. 24 (UPI) — A note left in a bottle by a family during a camping trip in the woods 50 years earlier was discovered by a visitor to a state park in Pennsylvania. The bottle was lying on the ground in the woods.
According to Joe Fresetta, he and his wife Marci Mowery were visiting Fowlers Hollow State Park in Perry County when he noticed wheat on the ground and at first mistook it for trash. Marci Mowery was with him.
When Fresetta picked up the bottle, she saw that it had a piece of paper that had writing on it.
Fresetta shared her speculations with WGAL-TV, saying, "I'm thinking, well, people don't generally write on their trash, so maybe there's something here."
The bottle held a receipt for $6 paid to a campground by Bernard Moore on August 31, 1973, as well as a paper plate with handwritten notes from five members of the Moore family that were penned when they were on their camping trip.
Mowery stated that the experience reminded him of his time spent camping in a state park. "That brought back memories for me,"
Mowery, who is the president of the Pennsylvania Parks & Forests Foundation, published the tale in the newsletter of the organisation in the hopes of locating one of the campers or a relative of one of the campers.
"We will hopefully be able to get in touch with the family that left this message so that we can give it back to them. That is something to look forward to, "Fresetta stated.