Kicker - A message in a bottle

NICK EICHER, HOST: The owner of a glass bottom boat in Michigan has seen some pretty cool things in Lake Michigan over the years, but none cooler than this!

Jennifer Dowker found an artifact almost 100 years old: A message in a bottle dated November, 1926.

DOWKER: I spotted that green bottle on the top of a fish bed. So I’m like oh, well that looks cool. So I reached down and grabbed it and noticed there was paper in it, so immediately I was like alright, this is great!

The note said simply, “Will the person who finds bottle return this paper to George Morrow, Cheboygan, Michigan, and tell where it was found.”

She tried, but found out George Morrow passed away in 1995. But his daughter Michelle Primeau was delighted to learn of the note.

PRIMEAU: It was a total shock! But knowing my dad, he always liked to do little things like, when we were building our basement, he was putting up the paneling and he put a note behind that.

Primeau thought about framing the note. But then decided giving the note back to Jennifer Dowker will help her father’s memory to live on.

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