Just a neat story
On Good Friday afternoon, Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck and Anthony Mautone Jr., the borough’s magistrate, went out on a boat in the bay to do a little fishing. But it soon got a little too windy, and they headed back.
But while returning, their curiosity was aroused when they saw a bucket sitting on the edge of an area known as Flat Island off 27th Street. Under the bucket were seaweed, debris and an old, glass Diet Pepsi bottle.
As Mautone looked closer, he could see the bottle had some paper inside it, and he thought maybe it contained a message. After he brought it to Huelsenbeck’s home and opened the tightly secured bottle cap with a pair of pliers, he indeed found a message, sent by Joe Jalkiewicz.
The brown-colored paper with pink lettering revealed that Jalkiewicz, who was 13 at the time, dropped the bottle in the bay off Ship Bottom on Aug. 2, 1976. The message requested the finder to name the location and the time of day or night when it was found and the weather conditions at the time of discovery. It asked the finder to send the information to Joe Jalkiewicz’s address in Medford.
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/this-message-in-a-bottle-didn-t-go-very-far/982377
On Good Friday afternoon, Ship Bottom Mayor William Huelsenbeck and Anthony Mautone Jr., the borough’s magistrate, went out on a boat in the bay to do a little fishing. But it soon got a little too windy, and they headed back.
But while returning, their curiosity was aroused when they saw a bucket sitting on the edge of an area known as Flat Island off 27th Street. Under the bucket were seaweed, debris and an old, glass Diet Pepsi bottle.
As Mautone looked closer, he could see the bottle had some paper inside it, and he thought maybe it contained a message. After he brought it to Huelsenbeck’s home and opened the tightly secured bottle cap with a pair of pliers, he indeed found a message, sent by Joe Jalkiewicz.
The brown-colored paper with pink lettering revealed that Jalkiewicz, who was 13 at the time, dropped the bottle in the bay off Ship Bottom on Aug. 2, 1976. The message requested the finder to name the location and the time of day or night when it was found and the weather conditions at the time of discovery. It asked the finder to send the information to Joe Jalkiewicz’s address in Medford.
http://thesandpaper.villagesoup.com/p/this-message-in-a-bottle-didn-t-go-very-far/982377
