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
>
> 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,
Name = susan
Susan says
Email = susanfa@charter.net
Message =
I placed a stone that was made by a girl from Vermont named
Elizabeth. She made it for me and I placed it in Sturbridge, MA at
Wells State park, down a trail by the water side up in a large old
pine tree that has a large critter living under it. It’s at eye level
and is bright yellow in color, good luck finding it. Susan
Name = Nick I-T
Email = Capnsilver@hotmail.com
Message =
At the moment a sam stone is in my dorm room here at Lyndon State. My
plan is to bring it up to the top of Burke Mountain on my first run of
the season.
Name = Rodolfo Casillas
Email = rcasilla@ieee.org
Message =
Hola John: I placed one of the stones in beautiful Guadalajara.