Cork History

I found a cork from a bottle on the beach the other day and started wondering about how it came to be there.

Had someone been drinking a bottle of wine on the beach and left the cork behind or had the cork come in on the tide?

Perhaps the cork had originated from a seaside restaurant on the Riviera and traversed the ocean to arrive on the Delaware shore.If so, had the restaurant patrons been celebrating a special event like an anniversary, or had it been nothing more than a casual dinner party?

The cork could have had more mundane origins. The captain of a local fishing boat could have inadvertently let the cork fall from his grip.

What if the cork had been in a bottle containing a note? Had the note been found and the cork discarded or had the cork come out in the ocean and the note lost forever?

If the note had been lost forever, and if the note had come from someone stranded on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, what had happened to that person? Had they died from lack of food and fresh water or had they learned to survive on coconut milk and roast lizard?

It's amazing the world of possibilities that a single cork can open.