Girl who wrote message in a bottle honored
Patchogue Village officials dedicate a plaque at Patchogue Beach Club to Sidonie Fery, 12 years after she threw her inspiring message in a bottle into the Great South Bay. Fery, of Manhattan, who was 10 when she wrote the message, died in 2010. Workers helped reunite her mother with Fery's message, "Be excellent to yourself dude," after finding the bottle in December during superstorm Sandy cleanup. Videojournalist: Stringer News Service (July 13, 2013) (July 13, 2013 7:37 PM)
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A dozen years after Sidonie Fery scrawled a message on a piece of notebook paper, sealed it in a bottle and tossed it into the Great South Bay, her words were immortalized Saturday on the Patchogue Village beach where the missive landed.
The bottle and note, penned by then 10-year-old Fery of Manhattan, were found in December during superstorm Sandy cleanup, at the Patchogue Beach Club --...
