They’ll find nothing but frog bones and a tiny top hat in the time capsule.
Was the idea in 1901 to have this opened after a number of years, rounded to the nearest 113?
Well, I guess they could have chosen 226 or 339... so we are lucky to be here in 2014, after a mere 113 years to see what's inside.
After examination the capsule should be sealed up air and weather tight and put back in the statue for future a generation.
Tickets to the 1903 World Series. Oh, snap!
First season for the Boston Americans (later the Red Sox).
Cy Young wins his 300th game.
President McKinley assassinated Sept 14. (Theo. Roosevelt succeeded).
Australia declare independence.
Oil discovered in Texas.
Winston Churchill's first speech in the House of Commons.
Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday.
Anna Taylor - first woman over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Sep 12: Arabs attack Gedara, Palestine.
13 years late on the original plan? A century seems such a small blip in time. I hope they put it back.
Will Geraldo be doing the honors?
Oh, wait, this is one of those capsules that goes forward in time, not backward. Never mind.
Never vote a community organizer from Chicago as President!
Who is opening it? Jerry Rivers? (Geraldo Rivera)
A note of warning about that slick young Joseph Kennedy..
I have older stuff in my attic.
The advantage of these time capsules is that they keep what contemporaries think is important and not what later generations think was important through the lens of history.
We need objects from both groups of archivists.
Growing up, we kept publications that we thought were important like the moon landing, assassinations, natural disasters. Come to find out, everyone else did also so there is no collector value. What is fascinating is the other news of the day also in the publication, plus the advertising.
So much of the culture from 40-50 years ago is relevant. Tribute bands, if they are good, make good money and sell out arenas. Then the whole muscle car phenom. The term resto-mod for updating an old body on new suspension.
I bet they find Obola’s birth certificate...
They’ll find a note that says, “What?! You guys still here?!!”
“The Bostonian Society had expected the time capsule to include letters, newspaper clippings and other items from 1901, the year it was placed in the statue on the Old State House. Papers were found, along with the red book inside the copper box roughly the size of a modern shoebox. The book had no visible markings, and nothing was taken out of the box because of the items’ fragile condition. So, the contents of the book remain a mystery, for now.”
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/1901-time-capsule-removed-lion-statue-26063899