BBC News | Cross-pond pen-pals have been in touch for seven decades BBC News Before the advent of online social networks, people struck up unlikely friendships through pen-pal letters. Historians say between the 1920s and 1940s, it was common to have a pen-pal, even from another country. The BBC's Simon Clemison has spoken to ... |
Manchester To Honolulu: Pen Pals Since 1940 Hartford Courant In 1940, a teenage girl found passage to a faraway land on a back page of a comic book. The pen pal wanted listings showed "Jerrie" in Hawaii was seeking a letter-writing friend, and 14-year-old Domenica "Sunny" Quaglia, of 75 1/2 Birch St., Manchester ... |
Volunteers, students team up in penpal program The Recorder GREENFIELD — C.S. Lewis' “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” has been a classroom bookshelf classic for six decades, a blockbuster movie hit and, this spring, the topic of a series of letters between Greenfield sixth-graders and their pen pals ... |
Barack Obama -- my deluded pen pal Fox News (blog) Since September 29, 2012, I've received 98 emails from President Obama and his political action groups (Organizing for Action, MoveOn). These emails are always highly partisan, divisive and never pose a specific plan or course of action for solving any ... |
Columbus girl meets her soldier pen-pal - WNEM TV 5 WNEM Saginaw An 11 year old Columbus girl wanted to do something special to support the troops fighting overseas, so she wrote a letter to a soldier in Afghanistan. On Father's Day, she found out just how much that simple gesture meant to the sergeant who received it. Katie Grace Hartley, Georgia Girl, Meets Soldier Pen-Pal Just Back From ... |
