Name = Elliotts
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On Aug. 25 we placed two unofficial SamStones on Block Island at a
small park overlooking the harbor and ocean — one in the pavilion,
the second in the open atop a high post:
41 10′ 17.43″ N (2nd stone at 17.17″)
71 33′ 18.75″W (2nd stone at 18.31″)
Brad placed his SamStone after seeing this on the cliffs above where he was walking on Block Island
Hi John.
Last week me and my parents were on Mt. Desert in Maine. We took a ferry over to Little Cranberry Island or also known as Ilesford. It’s a very very tiny island but people still live there. There is one maine road. None of them have lines on them so everyone there just drives golfcarts and 4wheelers around. Everyone there seemed to be like family. I thought it was pretty cool how everyone knew each other. Well, we went there looking for a beach but we found that most of the beaches there are made up of all quarter sized rocks and bigger. It was quite interesting. We brought a Sam stone along with us. I had planned to put it in the little cottage that we were renting but then while on this island I found a shrine like thing that someone had put together. It was made of drift wood, rocks, rope, lobster bouyes, and other sorts of things that were found on the “beach.” Something in me just felt that this was the perfect place to put Sam. So I placed it in the center of the shrine like place. I really don’t know what to call it but it was pretty cool. I wrote SAM in rocks and put some wild rose flowers next to it. My dad was fly fishing and one of the hooks broke so I put his saltwater fly next to the stone.
I almost couldn’t stop taking pictures of it. There was a small pond on one side of it and on the other side was the ocean after you climbed over piles of rocks. It was beautiful in an odd way.
Ivy
Name = Mike Johnson
Hello, I did not place a stone; but it was given to me by my wife’s
nephews/nieces. I am deployed in Afghanistan with the US Army. They
sent me a samstone for my birthday. I am currently in Bagram,
Afghanistan. If you want to put that mark on your map, that would be
great. Thanks for what you do!
Mike Johnson
US Army
Alex left a SamStone at Star Island camp off the coast of New Hampster.
Name = Ralph Coffman
My friend Chris’s dad, Ralph put a SamStone in the russion River.
-jc
Hi John,
Here are some pictures I took while in Seattle. I made 2 Samstones and left one by the Space Needle, and the other one by the Jimmy Hendrix museum. There was a science center near there. While I was driving I also took some shoots, one was on the 520 bridge over Lake Washington and the other was the Husky (University of Washington) stadium. 🙂
Kelly Liu
Rotational Assignee
IBM Academy of Technology
294 Route 100, Somers, NY 10589
http://w3.ibm.com/academy (intranet)
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/academy (Internet)
Hey, neat thing…..
Jen Taylor took a Sam stone to Martha’s Vineyard and took photos on the beach. She said she would share them as soon as she has a chance to download them. She said her five year old didn’t really understand where Sam was. Ahhh, that’s sweet.
Willow Buscemi
Communications
Technology and Intellectual Property
914-766-3362
willowc@us.ibm.com
Willow D Christie/Somers/IBM@IBMUS
Name = Lisa Stanton
Email = lstanton@hcsvt.org
Did you: = Place a SamStone ?
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This is Lisa Stanton, Rusty and RJ’s mom. Mark and I recently
visited Kaua’i to visit my sister. We took several samstones with us.
I placed the first one behind this waterfall on the black lava rock
where it stands out a bit. Only the bravest will swim all the way to
the back and notice the stone because the water is VERY cold,
especially after a 4 mile hike along the Na Pali coast and then
through a bamboo forest. Hiking is the ONLY way to reach this very
special place on earth, Hanakapiai Falls. I have GREAT pictures of
the waterfall, but I’m not exactly technological, and it says they
are too big to send to you. Any advice?
Name = Phil LaCroix
I placed this SamStone at the top of a waterfall along a hiking trail
at Buttermilk Falls statepark in Ithaca NY. Miss you Sam
Name = Nikki Underwood
Hi John,
The Townsend Family was nice enough to send me some SamStones. I have
given them to several friends for future placement in Montana &
Washington State. My Mom went on Vacation to Key West in May…here
are some photo’s of where they placed one of the SamStones.
Hemingways House with all the 6 toe -ed cats. Maybe someone has found
it by now, lots of people pass thru there everyday:)
Thank you for sharing the stones. I check in frequently to this
website and love to see how far some of them have made it.
Good luck to you & your family.
Nikki Underwood
Jupiter, Florida
