GREENSBORO, N.C. — Raise your hand if you’ve ever done something you didn’t really expect to work out or go anywhere. Maybe you wished for something when you saw a shooting star or called a radio station hoping you’d be caller number 10.
“I just thought it was interesting, but I didn’t think much would come out of it,” Faera Byerly said.
Her daughter Vivian took part in a class project at Greensboro Day School. The assignment involved writing a positive message that would be placed in a bottle and then tossed into the ocean.
“You always hope it’s a possibility because occasionally you’ll hear stories on the news of bottles being found,” Susan Ferguson said.
Ferguson was teaching her third-grade students about the North Carolina coast and thought it would be fun to incorporate some mapping and writing into the assignment. Ferguson then asked a friend who was taking part in a fishing fundraiser, Reelin' for Research charity fishing tournament to toss the bottles in the ocean.
“I think it was pretty cool. I didn’t think mine would be found ever,” Vivian Byerly said.
Every student from the third-grade class stuffed a note into a bottle of their own that was tossed in the ocean about 50 miles off the coast. The bottles were thrown in the ocean in April of 2019. It took 15 months, but about two weeks ago, one of those bottles washed up on a beach.
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