I love thrift stores because you never know what you're going to find.
Last year I was at a thrift store and they had a bin filled with clearance books. I enjoy reading and so I was searching through the books hoping to find some interesting titles.
At the bottom of the bin, there was this very old looking bible. I picked it up and opened the cover to see that someone had recorded a lot of information about their family. The inside cover and back pages were filled with names and dates of marriages, births, and deaths. The earliest date I saw recorded was from 1912.
I've done some Geneology research myself and I thought about how great it would be to find something like that, that once belonged to a relative. So I bought the bible and started researching some of the names that were handwritten inside the cover pages.
It didn't take long for me to find the family that it belonged to. I sent an email to one of the names recorded who was still living.
I got an email back from his daughter-in-law telling me that the people listed were indeed their relatives and that they would love would love to have it. So, she sent her address and to my, surprise they were from a town in New York called "Babylon."
I had never heard of this town, so it was really quite interesting, and I had to chuckle a little. I sent the bible out to them the next day.
Now I can really say that I sent a Bible to Babylon. lol
The image listed is not the actual Bible that I sent. I took a picture of the inside pages but too much information is recorded there.