By Stephen Smoot, The Pendleton Times
FRANKLIN, W.Va. — Three decades ago, educator Dale Hubert had an idea.
He would take a character from a book written three decades prior called “Flat Stanley” and build an educational project around him. The book, written by American author Jeff Brown, tells of an elementary school boy named Stanley Lambchop who was, unfortunately, flattened by a falling bulletin board.
In the book, Flat Stanley makes the best of an inconvenient situation. Though only existing in two dimensions now, he can still enjoy traveling. His parents roll him up, put him in a tube, and mail him to California for a visit.
As interesting as the more literal minded modern generations might feel about the details of being flattened, rolled up, encased in a tube, and sent somewhere via the occasionally reliable United States Postal Service, Flat Stanley has seen extended life through a project that plays on the story.
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