Uncovering a 2500 Year Old TIME CAPSULE - Keith W Stump - February 1981

Keith W Stump

America's bicentennial in 1976 saw dozens of time capsules buried in virtually every state across the nation. A time capsule is a metallic container into which records and mementos of one generation are placed for safekeeping, later to be opened and studied by a succeeding generation anxious to know how it was "back then." Magazines, newspapers, coins and currency, tape recordings, articles of clothing, photographs and other items of contemporary society are carefully selected and lodged inside the capsule. The capsule is then sealed. Finally it is buried, never to see the light of day until, at the proper future time, it is dug up and its seal broken - 100 years, 500 years or even 1,000 years hence. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library