A teen’s message in a bottle, written 49 years ago in Massachusetts, was found more than 1,000 miles away in the Bahamas. Brothers Clint and Evan Buffington discovered the 1976 message tucked ...

In the message, Peter R. Thompson, who now lives in Leominster, had written, “I’m a ninth-grade student from Pentucket Regional Junior High School [in West Newbury].

Find a message in a bottle, there’s gonna be more.” And there were more. It had been six years since Clint and Evan got to go on a beachcombing trip together.

A pair of brothers walking along the coast of a remote island in the Bahamas found a message in a bottle that had been written by a 14-year-old Massachusetts student in 1976.