Time Capsules: Memories Written In The Earth

I found an article on time capsules while thumbing through our archives. Time capsules bring mortality to mind and make me wonder if someone somewhere ever placed one of Bellairs's books in such a thing. I cannot fathom why one would do such a thing except to help ensure people remembered the book decades from now. Maybe there's an autographed edition buried somewhere underground.

Time capsules also made me wonder what would have happened had Isaac and Selenna decided to plant a little secret in their backyard. Not so much the instructions for end-of-the-world shenanigans but another booby-trapped timepiece of sorts.

Anyway –

The Mental Floss article talked about lost time capsules, those people with good intentions spent time creating and their descendants quickly misplaced.

The International Time Capsule Society at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, there are approximately 10,000 time capsules in the world. However, they also estimate that no one remembers where 9,000 of them are buried.

For example:

The City of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, developed an ingenious plan to prevent vandalism when they decided to inter a time capsule in 1962. They elected a special committee to decide where the capsule should be buried and were then instructed to keep the location a secret. The men kept their word all right—perhaps a little too well. Twenty-five years later, when the capsule was supposed to be dug up for the city's 100th anniversary in 1987, almost all of the committee members had died and none had passed on the time capsule's secret location.

Good luck, all!