Name = Jamile Sims
Email = jamile@jamile.com
Message
http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=3699189008/a=117219282_26354544/
Stone #2 was placed March 16, 2010 in a stone wall on the property of
the Leonardo di Vinci Museum. The wall overlooks land that is a
vineyard and olive tree garden. The museum is in Vinci, Italy, where
Leonardo was born in 1452.
Name = Jamile Sims
Email = jamile@jamile.com
Message =
Stone #1 was placed March 13, 2010 in the side garden of Hotel
Germania located at a seaside resort near Venice, Italy.
http://www.hotelgermania.net
Name = Sam Horner
Email = samsnare08@gmail.com
Sam Horner wrote:
Message =
Last year I climbed up camels hump VT and found a Sam stone. This
year I came back with another Sam stone and almost climbed up to the
top of VT, but not quite. I still placed a Sam stone below the sign
on the sunset ridge trail on MT Mansfield VT.
Name = Jeff & Michelle Jonas
Email = jeffjonas@us.ibm.com
File attached = IMG00110-20100320-1656.jpg
Message =
Bali, Indonesia
March 2010
Michelle and I are here for a weekend get away. I placed this stone
in the middle of a beach run!
Name = MARTYS HOUSE
Email = STEVENZISKIND@yahoo.com
Message =
SADDLE RIDGE DRIVE HOPEWELL JCT NEW YORK
Name = Jeff & Michelle Jonas
Email = jeffjonas@us.ibm.com
File attached = IMG00020-20100319-0435.jpg
Message =
Just took this photo a few hours ago the the Singapore Changi Airport
at the Cactus Garden on the roof of Terminal 1. It was beautiful.
Michelle and I were having a drink as we were waiting for a plane.
Name = Michael Hicks
Email = thegoodideaman@yahoo.com
Message =
Sam looks like such a Handsome Lad,
he's achieved a level of cool that we all aspire to,
(and in such a short span of time)…
Thankyou for the stones, and the note.
I placed 1 in Amacher Park,
(just across the street for me)…
http://www.co.douglas.or.us/parks/view_park.asp?features=&cnt=&index=0
43°16'45.60"N 123°21'32.11"W
Bless you all…
John,
Hows VT my friend? Baja is EPIC and I am so, so happy!!!!
I dont have much juice left on my computer but I wanted to send you
a pic of my first SAM Stone drop.. We are in an epic Baja surf spot
called Scorpion Bay in San Juanico (Punta Pequena) Mexico,where we
have been for a few days now.. The surf has been EPIC and it has been
so refreshing.. So, I was wondering if you could post this on the SAM
website if you have the free time? For the next week my internet
access/ power will be very small and I am stoked to put this picture
up on the site. I have had very little computer access for the last 3
weeks but once we get to Cabo in a week or so then I will have so much
time to post so many amazing stories, pictures and video footage. But
for now I can only send out little bits and pieces to the world. I
cant wait to be able to tackle my blogspot and write about all the
crazy things I have seen..
Ok, so the picture is of a SAM Stone that I placed on the reef that
is only free during high tide and I managed to get a good angle and
even get my sailing partner Kevin Majewski riding a wave on his long
board in the background.. I am sending the photo in RAW format; so
that means it will be a very large photo (its in a ZIP FILE below).
But I figured I would send it this way just incase you want to use it
for something like the website.
I WAS SUCH AN AMAZING FEELING TAKING THIS PHOTO TODAY!!!!!
Thats it for now, cutting it short; gotta get back in the water and
get some more surf in before the sunsets in a few hours 🙂
ps- I will also attach a small photo of the towns local weather
station which I think you might get a kick out of.. Also, could you
please confirm that you have received this if you could? I am usually
curios to see if my e-mails go thew being that we are a mile or so
from whom evers wifi we are steeling 🙂
Name = Hayley Williams Email = hay_williams2002@yahoo.com Message = This weekend our family placed a Sam stone in our Nano’s (Grandmother) garden. The garden overlooks a small lake and many family visitors sit and visit in her garden each year. My niece actually placed the stone with her mom. My sister shared Sam’s story with her the night before and she told me as we headed outside to place the stone that “the little boy would really like the spot that we pickedâ€Âť. Three generations shared in this memory. Sam’s story has really touched our hearts. Thank you for letting us be a part of his continuing story. Stone placed: Deer Creek Subdivision, Montgomery, AL 36117 Link to photos of the placed stone:
Name = Ray McCarthy Bergeron
Email = bergeron@champlain.edu
Message =
Happy (1-day late) Birthday John! Hi Diane!
I wanted to put something together for both of you and sorry it took
a while, but it’s a culmination of the stones Corinn and I placed
while in Scotland this past year. I blogged about it and here’s the
direct link to the page:
(http://blog.corinnandray.com/blog/post/2009/08/12/Sam-Stones-in-the-UK.aspx).
It was recently posted though the date was logged differently. As I
place more, I’ll try to do similar blog posts. Hope all is well…
-Ray
I had the great opportunity to learn from and know more about a great friend of the EMC, John Cohn, over the past several years.  One of the stories John shared to us a while ago told touched our hearts.  In short, pulled from his website, this is the short story:
Sam was an exuberant boy with a 1000 watt smile. He loved his friends, family, dog, and bird deeply. Sam was passionate about guitar, snowboarding, lacrosse, and having fun. Yes, having fun was important to Sam.
Springtime meant lacrosse for Sam and a time to play hard with his buddies. Ultimate frisbee at the park were memorable times for Sam and he would come home with a big smile on his face and grass stains on his body. Summers you could find Sam floating down the rivers, swinging from a rope swing, biking, or just hanging with friends. A summer would be complete with time spent at Camp Abnaki and jamming at Burlington Rock Camp. Fall would be the season Sam would try and stretch summer out a little bit more until the snow started to come. That time was then spent at Bolton Valley Resort on his snowboard. He enjoyed ariel tricks and hitting the rails. Mostly he enjoyed just hanging with his friends and little brother Gabe.
Sam loved music and was always plugged into some song. Guitar was second nature to Sam. He could play “Asturias” on his classical guitar to heavy metal on his Gibson. He enjoyed playing bass and wailing on the drums. His favorite times were when he would jamming with one of his friends, or his big brother Max.
It is hard to capture Sam’s true spirit in a few paragraphs. He taught us so much. Mostly he taught us to have fun, ease up, and to be there for each other. He is a true best friend to many and deeply missed.
Sam was born on May 28, 1992. He was hit by a car on November 20, 2006 in Florida while visiting friends. His beautiful body stayed strong long enough for organ donation. He gave his heart, liver, kidney, and kidney-pancreas so that four others would live. His spirit continues on through them and surrounds us today. Sam lived his life to its fullest on this planet.
To help with Sam’s passing, John and his family create what are called SamStones.  Here’s a short description, found on his website, of what they are:
SamStones are made with love by Sam’s friends and family. Our intent with these stones is to pass on some of that love.  If you have found a SamStone please feel free to keep it, move it or pass it on. We hope that you will pause and feel the love that is being passed on to you.Â
If you would like to know more about Sam Stones, you can find out more here: Â http://www.samestone.org/. Â Corinn and I wanted to contribute, so we were given a bag of stones from Diane, John’s wife, and will now bring them on our McBe Adventures. Â My goal is to, as accurately as possible, track where I placed them with a photos of the location and to document that location within something like Google Maps. Â So if you see future posts of SamStones, you’ll know that we’ve traveled recently. Â Below is our first map of where we placed many Sam Stones while in the UK. Â Click on each marker, as the map is interactive, to learn more about the location we placed the stone and a short story of the site. Â You can even change the terrain, move the map around, and zoom in and out!
Below are photos where we visited with Sam being part of the shots. Â We tried placing Sam where we though he’d have a great view of the locations we visited. Â Some shots were difficult to obtain while others we though were really great. Â We figured this would be good to compliment the map above as a way to visually see more of where we traveled with him. Â Hope you enjoy them!
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Just so that you know, we’re the McCarthy Bergeron’s, a couple of nuts living in Vermont, USA. Below is a little more about each of us:
I’m Corinn, a creative gal, who works in theatre and has a great love for it!
Follow my work at VSC
I’m Ray, a tech and creative guy, who doesn’t seem to have enough time to work on all my side projects.
Follow my work at The EMC
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