Residents of New Haven, Connecticut are experiencing another spooky Halloween this year involving centuries-old skeletons and time capsules. After winds of Hurricane Sandy ripped through the town in 2012, a women walking through New Haven Green noticed a skull under an uprooted historic tree, coincidentally, on...
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College Celebrates a Century with Time Capsules
It's Homecoming season for many colleges right now, but one university is celebrating 100 years of education with time capsules. John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas unveiled its 1982 time capsule for the school's 100th anniversary, and plans to bury another one to be opened 50 years...
Kicking off the Weekend with a Time Capsule
Workers renovating old mills in Columbus, GA uncorked a bourbon bottle time capsule today, capping off the week with a message from employees who worked there 102 years ago. Mike Owen of Ledger-Enquirer.com reports that the faded note in the 90-proof bottle was on the letterhead of the City...
When is a Good Time to Open a Time Capsule?
A time capsule buried under a statue in 1986 was found unexpectedly last week in Rochester, Minnesota and city leaders wonder if it's too soon to open it. "I have to do some thinking about that," Rochester Mayor Ardell Brede told the Rochester Post-Bulletin. "Obviously, we could open it now, or we...
Lucky Irish Students Open Millennium Time Capsule
Not all time capsules are buried and unearthed 100 years later. Students at the Glenville National School in County Cork, Ireland witnessed the opening of their school's paint tub time capsule buried only 15 years ago. Their school is rebuilding and expanding so the relatively "new" capsule had to...