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First graders from W.G. Mallet School mail letters to their families at the Farmington Post Office Friday, Dec. 17, to participate in “The Flat Stanley Project.” The entire first grade class mailed letters with pictures of their faces glued on to drawings “to bring themselves on adventures to places they can’t go” like the eponymous character of children’s book “Flat Stanley.” Kay Neufeld/Franklin Journal
Carson Birmingham-Bordon, a first grader at W.G. Mallet School, mails a letter to his family at the Farmington Post Office Friday, Dec. 17. The letter included a picture of his face glued to a drawing so he can be an adventuring world traveler like the eponymous character of the children’s book “Flat Stanley.” The elementary school’s entire first grade class mailed letters to participate in “The Flat Stanley Project.” Kay Neufeld/Franklin Journal
First graders mail letters to their families with drawings of themselves to participate in “The Flat Stanley Project” at the Farmington Post Office Friday, Dec. 17. The project, based off the children’s book “Flat Stanley,” helps the kids “to bring themselves on adventures to places they can’t go,” a teacher said. Kay Neufeld/Franklin Journal
First graders from W.G. Mallet School mail letters to family at the Farmington Post Office Friday, Dec. 17. The letters are a part of “The Flat Stanley Project,” based on the eponymous book. With the project, the first graders sent drawings of themselves so they can travel the world and go on adventures like Flat Stanley. Kay Neufeld/Franklin Journal

Kay Neufeld is a business reporter with the Portland Press Herald, covering labor, unions and Maine's workforce; lobstering, fisheries and the working waterfront. They also love telling stories that illustrate...

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