Reunited and It Feels So Good...

December 27, 2007

It's a winter sight as familiar as runny noses and salted sidewalks: one lone glove pathetically half-buried in curbside slush.

Now a Web site could help reunite a lone glove with its mate. Last month, Jennifer Gooch, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, launched One Cold Hand, a lost-and-found website for missing mittens and forgotten gloves. Read the New York Times article here.

 

So if you live in Pittsburgh and find a stranded glove or mitten, you can mail it to One Cold Hand, #1007, 5032 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15289. Or you can drop it in a box at one of a dozen or so participating businesses. Once it finds its way back to Gooch, she'll photograph it and post the image to her site, accompanied by descriptive tags (leather, right, left, fingerless, chenille, bling) that aid the search. 

Gooch is planning to start up similar sites in Milan and Philadelphia. And she's hoping to showcase photos of the gloves in an upcoming art show and book.