Message in a Bottle: The Chad Pregracke Collection | Chad Pregracke’s Fascinating River Finds6/28/2017 By MEREDITH SIEMSEN
"In the Figge Museum’s Message in a Bottle Collection, specially constructed boxes display the bottles, and a map shows where they were found. In 1560, Queen Elizabeth I created the official position of “Uncorker of Ocean Bottles” to ensure that naval secrets sent through the ocean’s currents were not seen by undeserving eyes. She meant business. Any man, woman, or child caught opening a message from the sea was risking life and limb. Literally. Ew. Chad Pregracke, by pure happenstance, is a modern-day finder of secrets gone adrift. In this age, capital punishment no longer applies for the uncorking of bottled messages, thank goodness, because Chad has found, read, and safeguarded scores of them over the past few decades..." [Click here to read the full article from The Iowa Source.]
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7/4/2020 07:13:10 pm
I love all of things that you found here. I believe that you are going to make a lot of things happen for you. I mean, there are people who have no idea how it is, and that is what makes me mad. If we can do things for ourselves, then that is for the best. I really do wish that we become people who can be a lot better. I just wish that we all make it happen as soon as we can.
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