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Finally answered

Amessage in a bottle found after being hidden in a wall at Quonset Naval Air Station for more than 60 years came with a question its authors knew couldn't be answered unless their makeshift time capsule was discovered. The message asked, "Will this bottle see the sun?" It was finally found earlier this year when a demolition crewmember found the bottle while breaking down the barracks at the Quonset station in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Two carpenters wrote the message on a business card in 1941. The men wrote their names on the back of the card, which was from a Providence candy store that no longer exists. They then shoved it into a pill bottle and sealed it inside the walls of the building they were working on.

COMPLIED BY NIMI KURIAN

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