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 ...

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.

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].