Family reunited with message in bottle left behind 50 years ago in Pennsylvania state park
A Susquehanna Valley couple now knows who left behind a message in a bottle they found in a state park in Perry County.
News 8 was there for the reunion.
It was a long and unexpected journey that brought the Moore family back to Fowlers Hollow State Park on Tuesday.
Months earlier, Joe Frassetta spotted a glass bottle there with a decades-old message inside. He shared it with News 8, hoping to find who left it behind.
Donna Moore, of York County, was watching.
"Everything that was said just started to add up. And I told him, and I said, 'This has to be us,'" she said.
"They were bouncing up and down on the chairs. Donna kept saying, 'That's us. That's us,'" Leonard Moore said.
One thing didn't add up.
"But the name wasn't right. It was Bernard Moore," Christa Moore Wire said.
They took a closer look. They recognized the family's address and their own handwriting.
"Oh, yeah, that's my handwriting," Donna Moore said.
"And I said, 'Oh, my gosh. Fifty years ago. I was 13.' Crazy," Wire said.
Frassetta and his wife, Marci, were happy to be a part of it all.
"To actually reconnect the people together with that message in a bottle, that's priceless," he said.
The Moores call it a miracle to once again capture cherished memories of days gone by.