![]() ![]() “My teacher showed both of them to the whole class,” Patton said. Patton didn’t get to see his Stanley return, but on Tuesday in Nancy Cermak’s class, he got to see the newspaper story and the television piece about the search. “It’s like the whole island was looking for him.” ![]() “I had merchants ask me (Wednesday) morning if we had found Stanley,” Murphy said. A local cable network ran a piece about the search. Word of the search for Stanley eventually reached Cape Cod Times, which ran a story about the missing paper boy Tuesday. We looked everywhere, but we never found him.” That worked well until Murphy and Stanley traveled off the island last week somewhere during the ferry commute, Stanley disappeared. While on Martha’s Vineyard, Patton’s Stanley traveled in a magazine, so he remained flat, Murphy said. “He went with me to all the different points of interest on the island, and he even went with me on a business trip to Florida,” Murphy said. Patton’s version of Stanley, who wore blue pants, an orange shirt and a yellow polka-dotted tie, had a grand time on the Massachusetts island, Murphy said. Murphy agreed to host Flat Stanley, the title character of a 1964 children’s book, as part of the Flat Stanley Project at the school, where students send their versions of the character to friends or family around the country when Stanley’s travels are done he is returned to the classroom, and the kids learn a bit about where’s he’s been. His tour guide? Patton’s 42-year-old cousin, John Murphy, a resident of the island. Getting lost is a potential hazard for any traveler.ĭisappearing entirely is another matter, but that’s what happened to Flat Stanley.įlat Stanley, a 7-inch-tall paper cutout, arrived at Martha’s Vineyard last month, sent there by 9-year-old Scott Patton, a second-grader at Center Grange Primary School. ![]()
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