1980's Pen pals from Montana and Ohio renew friendship in Billings
Posted on AllSides October 2nd, 2023
From The Center
A friendship started nearly four decades ago using an old way of communicating, the U.S. Postal Service. The pen pals from Marysville, Ohio and Laurel, Montana eventually lost contact. Last week, they celebrated with a reunion in Billings. Two eighth graders started sending the letters in the late 1980s through a 4-H pen pal program. They continued on through college and lost track of each other when one of them stopped posting on social media. Then the woman came to Billings for a 4-H conference and through a series of...