Dear Liam G. Moore:
Your FLAT STANLEY came all the way to my city, Palo Alto, California.
While he was here, these are some of the exciting things he saw and did:
We met, in real life, over the internet, or in our imaginations, interesting and friendly people like, Mayor of Palo Alto Nancy Shepherd, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and his dog, basketball player Rick Barry (we celebrated his 70th birthday on 3/28/14), musician Illinois Jacquet; musicians FLAT STANLEY Jordan, Christopher Tin and Sandra Bae.
The distance between Springfield, Illinois and my city is approximately 1,500 miles.
If FLAT STANLEY should come back to visit, he should wear a Jacquet, because the climate here is a little rainy.
Some interesting other facts about my city include: Palo Alto is named after a tall tree — “alto” means tall. In 1769, a man from Spain, Portola, discovered it. Actually, there were native people here already, the Ohlone. About thirty years ago, another tribe, called “Computer Nerds” started arriving, and call this place “Silicon Valley.” Come visit! Love, Mark Weiss
edit to add, a month later, a post-script:
To: earwopa@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:16 AM
Subject: Flat Stanley comes home
The project by Liam and you impressed the first grade class sufficiently
that they made a poster of it. Thank again, man.
See attached.
B
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
From Liam G. Moore:
“Thanks, Uncle Mark, for a great blog post. I love the poet Lawrence Spaghetti. He’s my favorite Italian poet.”
From Brian E. Moore (Liam’s dad): “And I appreciate that he read about Joyce’s ambitions for my race, the proliferative Irish people.”