lol not only can they forget exactly where it had been buried...they
can forget that they ever did one. Is what happened with my high school history
class. 11th? 12th? grade (1979 or 80). I, for one had forgotten (though over the
years something would come up to remind me of it).
Back in 2000ish...drove by my old high school and saw that construction
was underway for a new school in the lot adjacent to ours. I emailed my
former history teacher and asked if he recalled where we buried the time
capsule. He had completely forgotten about it and I was the 1st who had ever
mentioned it. It took him a bit to find any documentation from it...we had done
this with another class and the other teacher had the information. Last I heard
- he assured me that it hadn't been buried in that lot.
I've lost contact with the teacher a few years back so I'm glad this topic
came up. He had told me he was due to retire, but I should still have his home
phone and address somewhere. We were to dig up the capsule after 25 years and
it's been more than that now.
I recall some of what I placed in the capsule..some sheetmusic (Billy Joel
and Elton John). And my sister's Peter Frampton 'Comes Alive' album - in
retaliation for when she 'took' my Neil Young album and returned it to me
with 'Nadia's Theme' instead.
Some of these things I would think (like records) aren't going to be
preserved well? Even in an air-tight and leak-proof container, there are still
going to be the issues with temperature.
Oh and for locating your time capsule...rather than a metal detector and
digging up the lawn there...perhaps ground-penetrating radar may be a better
alternative? that way you could locate it, document it's location without having
to dig anything up.
Pam
In a message dated 1/22/2007 4:10:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Good Morning
Emily,
Speaking from
experience……..
The best place for a
time capsule is on a shelf in a museum storage area or put it on display in a
museum lobby vitrine. In any case, I would use a non-acidic museum
storage box and not bury it. If you bury it, there is a good chance that
it will be lost because folks forget “exactly” where it is buried. Not
that long ago, the Pink Palace Museum buried a time capsule….and now we can’t
find it….I am not making this up! Our next step is to get a
“high-powered” metal detector and start digging up the lawn next to the
parking lot. At another museum, I was present for the opening of an
1850s time capsule, which was placed in a railroad roundhouse’s
cornerstone. When the sealed metal box (zinc?) was opened, it was full
of water…..rusty water. The contents were a sloppy, goopy
mess……….
I know of some
people………..who bury ammunition, firearms, MREs, and gold in anticipation of
Armageddon (or maybe it is Zombie Attacks) and they use large diameter PVC
pipe with the threaded ends “glued and sealed.” The pipe may be only be
opened with a hack-saw.
I hope this
helps,
Wesley
Wesley S.
Creel
Administrator of
Programs
Pink Palace Family of
Museums
Memphis,
TN
www.memphismuseums.org
From:
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Emily Hildebrant
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:30
PM
To:
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Subject: Time
Capsule
I'm posting this for a
colleague of mine:
She is putting together a time
capsule and wishes to know both what type of container to use and (if
possible) a company to buy it from.
The location is in Wisconsin so the soil
conditions would be wet and experience deep seasonal changes. The proposed
duration of time is from 50 - 100 years.
The fish are biting.
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