Posted on 08/14/2017 10:44:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
ORLANDO, Fla. - A time capsule that was found hidden in the base of a Confederate statue that stood in Lake Eola Park for nearly 100 years contained the remains of what appeared to be a flag, money, newspapers and more.
City officials found the 3-pound metal box in the top base of the statue, dubbed Johnny Reb, in June while they were relocating the 300-pound monument to Greenwood Cemetery. The statue was moved after critics argued that it was a symbol of slavery and shouldn't be displayed at a city park.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the city opened the box in the presence of the media to properly document the items.
"I've been mayor for 15 years and a lot of stuff I do is repetitive year after year, but this is something I've never done," Dyer said.
The statue was originally installed in the city in 1911, but was moved to Lake Eola Park in 1917 after it was deemed a traffic hazard, city Historic Preservation Officer Richard Forbes said.
A city worker used a drill bit to access the box because the lock wasn't functioning. Before the box was opened, Forbes showed a photographic image of a painting that was found on top of box.
"It was probably a print of a famous painting," he said.
Each relic, all of which are in fragile condition, was carefully removed from the box and briefly examined.
Among the artifacts was a letter dated Feb. 15, 1911, that had the names of members of the Florida Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy. There was also a booklet of the minutes from the group's 15th annual convention that was held in Ocala in 1910.
Dyer said he was surprised the relics were still intact.
"I thought it was all going to be dust," Dyer said. "I guess the interesting thing to me was if I'm in 1911, what would I want to put in a time capsule to be opened -- whenever, 50 years or 100 years from now -- to give the people of the time capsule a little glimpse into what happened in Orlando in 1911."
Forbes said he was surprised that the booklet and newspapers were in better condition than the money.
"Usually, the money was printed on higher-quality paper," Forbes said.
The city owns the property and will turn it over its history center, Dyer said.
I’m surprised that they didn’t immediately start a bonfire. “Burn the past! Hide our history!”
They intend to use this event in Charlottesville as a catalyst to remove all Confederate monuments.
When they are done with that they will move on to some other aspect of American history.
Anyone resisting the erasure of history will be tarred as a racist white supremacist.
Everyone who is not behind Antifa, BLM and the rest must be racists, bigots, sexists, homophobes, Islamophobes, etc.
No defense of American history, values, culture or way of life will be tolerated.
“The statue was moved after critics argued that it was a symbol of slavery and shouldn’t be displayed at a city park.”
Why would no one stand up and say no, this is not a symbol of slavery and the statue will remain in place?
“There was never any slavery. Don’t tell me you nuts believe the Confederacy ever existed”
The Taliban wants to rewrite history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984. George Orwell’s most famous work..................
As a Northerner, I am saddened that all history of the South and the Confederacy are being destroyed.
When all references to slavery are eliminated,
We will all be slaves........................
We have always been at war with Eastasia, Winston.....................
Funny how the Left controls the present even when they have minorities in Congress and we have a GOP President. Leaving me to conclude that their stranglehold on fake news media and the so called learning institutions is enough to control the minds of America.
George Washington needs to go then as well....he was a slave owner, as was Jefferson......when will the people say ENOUGH?
lets review and change all the roads, parks, cities and school names as well...call me a racist...I don’t really care.
They use intimidation, fear and manipulation to attain their goals, even when they don’t control the reins of power.........
It seems to have become a standard part of the playbook for statist-leftist activism. A violent situation is created, with a pre-arranged narrative, complete with simplistic slogans for the public, then immediately spread by the complicit media.
A very specific and detailed government policy is then set in motion
For example, what was the purpose of the organized riots in Ferguson and Baltimore? It appeared to be a very specific set of DOJ controls on the thousands local police forces across the USA.
They opened the Time Capsule and found:
America’s common sense. I wondered where it went.
We will all be slaves........................"
We already are.
What they seek to control now is our awareness of that fact.
This is 100% correct. And we know what it’s going to take to put a stop to it.
Evil racist crap /s
Guess the morons in BLM don’t know that just as they get rid of the history they don’t like, someone will come along in the future and erase their history as well. Wonder where they’ll take all the MLK stuff.
If you study the history of Mao's "Red Guards" you see that one of the things they focused on was to destroy things like statues...that is,rejecting,slamming,condemning everything about China's history and culture and essentially declaring that Mao was China's "beginning".
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