1795 time capsule opened, centuries after Revere and Adams buried it

[Recursion]

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/06/us/feat-paul-revere-sam-adams-boston-time-capsule/

More than 200 years after Samuel Adams and Paul Revere first buried it in Boston, it took an hour to remove all the objects crammed inside a tiny time capsule.

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"Could we actually go through the whole box, or would things prove too fragile to take out?" said Malcolm Rogers, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. "It was like brain surgery, with history looking down on us."

Piece by piece, Pam Hatchfield, head of objects conservation for the museum, removed each item, whispering "wow" as she first caught a glimpse of some of them.

Among the stash Hatchfield removed from the 1795 time capsule: Five folded newspapers, a Massachusetts commonwealth seal, a title page from Massachusetts colony records and at least 24 coins.

[cyberswede]

1. Cool!

We placed a time capsule in a cornerstone of my elementary school in 1976. I won't be around when they open it in 2076.

I wish I could remember what we put in it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. "I wish I could remember what we put in it."

Mood rings and all the bicentennial stuff we were sick of.

(It got so bad that pizza places were cutting pies into 13 slices.)

[Thor_MN]

3. In 8th grade, we buried a time capsule in the city park.

The stone with the plaque is now gone and I wonder if anyone will remember it is there/where it is in 2077.

[JDPriestly]

4. I wonder what the newspapers said.

[rpannier]

5. The stuff you would expect to see in it

You know:
Thomas Jefferson's interview where he confirms that Jesus came to him and told him what to write in the Declaration of Independence

An article by Madison and Jay on how as they were writing the Federalist Papers and the Constitution, it was their memories of Moses that guided their democratic ways

Story on God speaking through George Washington

Samuel Adams and John Hancock's op ed opposing National Health Care

Alexander Hamilton's commentary piece on how the Constitution is set in stone. It is exactly what it says in it, so it can never change anything in it

[brett_jv]

6. You forgot one ...

'Founders Declare Vnanimously That the 2nd Amendment Intended to Permanently Enshrine Divine Right for All US Citizens to Own Vnlimited Firearms Regardless of Militia Membership (or Any Other Such Traitor-Socialist-Inspired Clap-Trap)'

[jberryhill]

7. No...

Flying orb spirits away farmer

[JDPriestly]

10. Love it. Keep going. +1000

[trusty elf]

11. There's the story of how Paul Revere warned the British with shots and bells!

as Sarah Palin reminded us:

"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed."

[SheilaT]

8. Absolutely fascinating.

In the mid 90's I participated in a time capsule thing at my kids' elementary school. As I recall, it was intended as a twenty year time capsule, but since we've moved away (and the school was rebuilt even before then) I wonder if the capsule has been preserved.

[yuiyoshida]

9. The secret recipe for making