First Time

“We have not opened this,” a second official told the audience. “This is not a joke, we have not opened it so we don’t know what’s in it.” Everybody was waiting for the lid to go off. Don’t forget that the capsule was buried inside for 25 years and because of that the lid didn’t open the way they thought it would. After a long resistance, the lid was finally off. The crowd was cheering for the fact that the lid was now finally opened and soon they would see what was there inside the 25 years old time capsule.

First Discovery

As you can see in the image that one of the faculty members is holding a document kind of thing in her hands which has been affected by the moisture that it has caught in 25 years. Fortunately, the items inside the capsule were still safe and were not completely destroyed. So the first thing they pulled out from the capsule was the music sheet called “Sketches & Reflections 1993.” This sheet belonged to Jena Marie Root, who wrote it by hand.

What Else?

Although the item’s exact origins are not known, Shenandoah University staff suspects that Root was the who composed it in the beginning. But there wasn’t just music treasure inside the time capsule but the what they took out next from the inside was a vinyl record called Introducing… The Beatles. The record was a hit which included hit songs like “Twist and Shout,” “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Love Me Do.”

A Little Statue

Aside from the music, the time capsule also contained several other things too. There was one item that appeared to be like an acting award. This little statue was labeled “Best Actor” and also had adorned with an earlier version of the medal which was used in the university back in 1993. There was also a message scratched over it saying, “DANE, single and in love in America, Dec. 1992.” 

A Dinosaur

So some of the students also left some keepsakes inside the time capsule to tell the future kids about their time in the university. One anonymous student left a plastic dinosaur to tell how much he/she loved the movie Jurrasic Park which was released in the same year this capsule was hidden. There was no stop to the items that were there inside the box.

Fun Toys

There was a stone hippo too with a carved name that we cannot take for obvious reasons. And there were few toys too including the pacifier toys that were designed in such a way to blow bubbles from it. Other items were also there which has names written on them which told that this stuff belonged to one such person, like the musical recital which belonged to Tobie Norwood Robinson from the batch of 1993.