Hands Across America - check in here if you participated in that event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_Across_America

Hands Across America was a benefit event staged on May 25, 1986 in which millions of people held hands for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States. Participants paid ten dollars to reserve their place in line; the proceeds were donated to local charities to fight hunger and help the homeless. The event was a project of USA for Africa.


scan of the Hands Across America t-shirt; shows logo"On the afternoon of Sunday, May 25, 1986, more than five million people joined hands to form a line that stretched 4,152 miles – from New York City's Battery Park to a pier in Long Beach, California. This nationwide event, called Hands Across America, was intended to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness."
Enough people participated to form an unbroken chain across the country if the path were a straight line. However, there were many breaks in the chain (The Simpsons later parodied this). In order to allow the maximum number of people to participate, the path linked major cities and meandered back and forth within the cities.

The Coca-Cola Company and Citibank donated a combined $8 million to fund the event. The event raised $20 million for soup kitchens.


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Our Church group was somewhere west of Harrisburg PA - Yeah, I'm such a nerd