The Hartigans have come from Ashland, Virginia, to see family and leave behind a letterbox.
JAMES HARTIGAN: “We have been doing this letterboxing thing for a while. And it is just a kind of neat way of connecting with people, you know, as opposed to sending emails and whatnot. It is something that you have travel to go get.”
BOB DOUGHTY: Ten-year-old Sean Hartigan carved the design of a train to use as his personal stamp.
SEAN HARTIGAN: “I definitely like the whole letterbox thing. I am actually kind of hoping for, like, next time we come, eight or nine notes in there.”
Sean’s older sister, Maggie, has written an introductory passage in the notebook.
MAGGIE HARTIGAN: “I wrote about my hat and about how awesome Ireland is, and I am going to move here when I get rich, along with many other things. [Laughs]”
But, first, the Hartigans have to hide their box. That involves a long drive through the rain over bumpy roads. They arrive after dark at the final resting place for many of James Hartigan’s ancestors.
JAMES HARTIGAN: “This is Kilkerrin cemetery. The gravestones would be several hundred years old.”
The Hartigans place their letterbox in a crack in the cemetery wall. They have given clues to family members about where to search for it.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Randy Hall is an American software engineer and author of “The Letterboxer’s Companion.” He says letterboxing began in Devon, England, in eighteen forty-five.
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