Abbott writes:

Name = abbott rachampbell

Email = masonabbieowen@gmavt.net

File attached = sam stone ween.jpg

Message =
The stage at the ween concert. terrible phone picture, but its the
smaller light colored blur under the drum riser. i got hit from
behind so it went further then it was supposed to.

Laura writes:

Hey John,

I just came down from the Martial Glacier above Ushuaia, Argentina (southern tip of Tierra del Fuego on the Beagle Channel).  It is a really beautiful spot – snow covered mountains at your back and water (with more snow covered mountains) in front of you.

Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I left one of the Sam stones up on the glacier high above the city.  I took some pictures of the views from there – I´ll send them to you when I get back (as well as add to the website).  It looked like there were a lot of great snowboarding options there in winter (as long as you didn´t mind walking your board back up afterwards – no chairlifts).

I will be boarding the boat for Antarctica tomorrow.  They technically don´t want you to take or leave anything on the continent, but if you are OK with a ¨¨don´t ask, don´t tell¨policy, then I am too…….
Laura

Name = Eric Wong

Email = wong@fr.ibm.com

Message =
Hi John !
I hope everything’s fine.
I wanted to let you know I have a samstone in transit in Nimes,
France.
The final destination should be Le Grau du Roi, Port Camargue on the
Medditerranean Sea cost.
I’ll update you as soon as it is placed.

Take care.
Eric.

Name = Heather and Mandi

Email = hunnybfly@comcast.net

File attached = DSC00094.JPG

Message =
we are both from maryland and heard about sam from a woman at work
named nan who knows the family. she told us about the stones and we
asked if we could have one. we took it to holly hill, south carolina
for the week of thanksgiving 07′. heather’s dad moved down there. we
placed the stone around the pond and by the lighthouse heather’s dad
built. its a very peaceful place! we think he will enjoy it!
(if you look right under the light house thats where the stone is!)

Wilson writes:

John,

I received one of the Samstones from the hands of Joanne Martin, during her trip to Brazil, in the week of November/5th. As you know, she came to the keynote speaker in the TLC-BR Annual Meeting, and brought one of the stones specifically to be left in São Paulo (by the way, Joanne, I hope you had a great and safe trip back to US, and brought home some good stories about your new Brazilian friends).

As Joanne can tell you in details, John, IBM Building is very close to the most important Park we have in São Paulo (Parque do Ibirapuera) and we (I, Liguroi, Spagnuolo and some others) go to the park every Friday to run. I promised Joanne to find a good place in the Park and leave one Samstone there. The opportunity appeared last wednesday (that was similar to a Friday due to a National holiday we had on Thursday) and Spagnuolo and I went to the Park and had the opportunity to leave the stone there.

In the first map below you will see IBM Building (red “A” at Rua Tutoia) and the park, represented by the green arrow (Ayrton Senna Tunnel goes underground and therefore all the green area is continuous and belong to the park). In the second map you can see the exact location of the stone. You see the same green arrow and then a round building northwest (with a yellow circle around it) close to the left superior corner of the map (“northwest” of the green arrow). This building houses “São Paulo Planetarium” (the reason he is a round building) and I positioned the stone in front of the Information board that is close to the main entrance. We assumed people that potentially go to the board for information is the kind of people that can pay attention to that “Sam” in one of the faces of the stone, and may get it and then anyything can happen.

We never know, but maybe someone that caught it will make contact through the site. Anyway, a Samstone is in São Paulo now. I hope it helps spreading Sam smile, hapiness and passion.

Wilson (and Spa).

My freind Paul put a SamStone on the Hollywood walk of fame.

Name = Alex  Flynn

Email = v.flynn@comcast.net

Addr = 3  townsend  rd

City = farmington

State = ct

Zip = 06032

Ctry = USA

Count = 10

When = Next 2 weeks

Message =
i found  the  sam  stone  on  bear mt.   and  one  of  my  friends
told  me  about  it.what  i  will  do  with  them  is  put  them  in
places  for  others  to  find  and  know  about  but  i  will  keep
one  for  myself  to  remember.

My friend Peggy says:  This week we put a Sam stone in front of the parthenon at the acropolis in Athens, Greece. The cool part was that we carried 2 of them all over Athens and even Santorini and George kept referring to them as “Sam”, as in “is Sam coming with us today?”. I finally decided to bring the other one I have home to leave at the high point of the run I do regularly in San Jose.

Gretchen wrote:
> >Dear I went to the L’accamedia today, home of David. Also has sculptures.
>
> schoolchildren went by with their teachers, all chattering in Italian. I
> got down on one knee and gave them a Samstone… was able to communicate
> to them its meaning.  The teachers and the kids were very excited and
> touched.  They had many questions.  While we were talking in
> English/Italian/sign language one of the fathers got onto the Samstone
> website on his blackberry and There were your faces!  The kids went away
> with the stone, a story, and I’m sure they will follow up.  Very special
> moment just a few feet from the “David.”
>
> Thought you and Sam would enjoy the story.
>
> Love,