[660] in Humor
HUMOR: Kilgore was (finally) here!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Jan 10 20:15:54 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:12:58 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 19:47:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Todd Kover <kovert@cs.UMD.EDU>
DORAVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- The letter began, ``I guess you think
I'm quite a little while in writing.''
That's putting it mildly. The letter arrived two generations
late.
Postmarked Jan. 27, 1919 and intended for Mary Turnbow, the
letter was delivered 76 years later to the home of Turnbow's
granddaughter, Kathy Kilgore. It bore a 3-cent stamp.
The letter originally was sent to Turnbow in Hazel, Ky., by her
sister-in-law in Bowling Green, Ky. But it disappeared along the
way and didn't reappear until recently in Louisville, Ky.
It was then forwarded to Hazel Postmaster Donald Crawford, who
located Kilgore with the help of a local bank teller.
