BALTIMORE — A Maryland student’s note stuffed in a corked wine bottle spent five years bobbing across the Atlantic until it washed ashore this summer on an English beach, where it was picked up by a retired electrician walking his golden retriever.
For seven weeks, Tony Hoskings, who lives in Cornwall, tried to find the note’s author. He searched the Internet and sought the help of his local newspaper. This week, he found him — 19-year-old Daniel Knopp.
Knopp was 14 and traveling with his family in the Bahamas when he wrote June 21, 2004: “Hello, my name is Daniel Knopp. I am on a cruise ship. I hope whoever reads this finds great joy. God bless. I live in the Baltimore/DC area.”
Hoskings was glad to track Knopp down. “It was quite a journey, and if you traveled all those thousands of miles, I think you would want your people to know you had made it safely,” he said.
