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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Dean Sparks still say he is not sure why he decided to buy the rusty old 1959 Chevy Bel-Air at a Nebraska auto auction. He said for some reason the clunker with 92,000 miles stood out to him. After towing the car 800 miles to his home, Sparks began to take it apart. He found many old things inside, but…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Blair Walsh, kicker for the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, missed a last-second field goal kick and kept the team from advancing in the 2016 NFL playoffs. After the game, many ridiculed Walsh for missing what many thought was an easy kick. A group of first graders at Northpoint Elementary school decide to…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
During World War II, Dorothy Carlberg exchanged letters with young soldiers. Now, nearly 7 decades later, she received a reply from one of the men she wrote to. Carlberg is 85 and lives in an assisted living center, was the intended recipient of letter written by Al Fragakis, who affectionately called…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
It took six decades, but Christmas cards mailed in 1953 finally reached their intended recipients. In 1953, a stack of 50 Christmas cards addressed to Vincent and Marina Maggiore mysteriously went missing. Sixty years later Rick Buser, a flea market vendor, spotted the cards at an auction. He thought…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
In the 40 years he has been teaching, Bruce Farrer has taken on a special roll each year to give former students a look at their lives from the past. Every year, Farrer asked his 14-year-old English students to write a 10-page letter to their future selves. After they assignment was turned in, Farrer…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
A postcard sent to two sisters in Elmira, New York arrived at the right address, but ended up in the hands of another family because it arrived nearly 70 years after it was sent. The card was sent in July, 1943 from Illinois. It was sent to Pauline and Theresa Leisenring by their parents who were visiting…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 4 views
The following "letters to God" have been making the rounds on the Internet. Dear God... Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?—Norma Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't You just keep the ones You have now?—Jane I went to this wedding and…
Ralph Andrus • Illustration • • 4 views
- For over 50 years chain letters have been sent to mailboxes - Chain Letters are letters which promise a phenomenal return on a small effort. - Subject: forward this - Subject: forward this on if you value your life - Subject: just following orders... - Subject: i don't normally do this sort of thing…