"I definitely think that would be so cool, to like come down and just like reflect on it, see how things have changed," she said.Īlex Vega is a retired Key West firefighter and local historian. She's 17, too old to be one of the official "ambassadors" when the time capsule is opened in 2072. It's got a photo of the high school, and on the back she wrote about what life is like there now. The time capsule includes a contribution from Key West High School, created by senior Rosa Nafrere. It will be great when they're in their 60s and get to open it up and be like, 'hey!'" he said. "Think of how pivotal these last couple of years are, for the kids to tell the story of the pandemic and how everybody pulled together and all the real positive things that kind of went on. Menta's recruited four local kids, ages 9, 10, 11 and 12, to be ambassadors for the island to provide their accounts of island life now - and be on hand when the time capsule is opened in fifty years. And underneath that, a Conch shell, the symbol of the Keys. He calls Ben Franklin his "ultimate superhero." On his right arm, he's got a tattoo of the Liberty Bell. I lived in Philly, right by the Liberty Bell," he said. "I grew up in Philadelphia, so in 1976 when we did the Bicentennial was like the best year of my life. Sculptor Craig Gray puts the finishing touches on the granite time capsule that will be installed above ground at Mallory Square for Key West's bicentennial. The person in charge of the project quits, and pretty soon nobody remembers where it was," he said. "They run out of money for the plaque, or they just never get around to putting it in because the ceremony's over and everybody forgets. Often they're put in the ground but they don't mark the spot," said Knute Berger, a writer and historian in Seattle who is a founding member of the International Time Capsule Society and headed up Washington State's centennial time capsule project. "Sometimes they don't get buried or they get stuck on a shelf somewhere. It turns out that losing track of time capsules is pretty common. "We're on this corner here at Duval and Front S treet and I'm kind of wondering, like, you know, where the hell could it be?" he said. Menta went looking in the area the stories described. Fifty years later, there's no such place. Newspaper stories from the time described it as going into a new development called Old Town Square. "They were just like, 'Mmm ahhh - do you know where it is?'" Menta said. And he started hearing questions about another time capsule - from when the island celebrated its 150th birthday in 1972. Paul Menta is chair of the committee for the celebrations. The celebrations include sealing up a time capsule, like these kinds of anniversaries often do. Key West is celebrating 200 years since the American flag was first raised over the island.
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