Communities Unearth, Open Decades-Old Time Capsules

Communities in several states are preserving local history through time capsules, with two buried in 1976 recently unearthed: one at an elementary school in New Lebanon, New York, and another by Telephone Pioneers in Panama City, Florida. In Houston County, Tennessee, officials opened a capsule placed behind the courthouse cornerstone in 1956, finding well-preserved newspapers, letters, coins, a phone book and other artifacts. West Chester, Pennsylvania, residents and students recently packed a new capsule with local keepsakes, including a school yearbook, borough flag and community-made items, to be opened in 50 years.