History revealed itself in the form of a box.
On Wednesday, Cecelia Snyder Middle School’s student council, Class of 1960, unsealed a time capsule they had tucked away safe and sound in a box with a marble lid, behind a concrete block dated 1958 at the school.
The class was the first class to attend the new school when it was built in 1958.
“We carried the chairs, desks and bookshelves over from the other school,” said Joe McLaughlin, 68, of Langhorne. “Imagine if they had the kids do that now.”
Al Heller, 68, of Langhorne, recalled that the paper put in the time capsule was the Bristol Daily Courier.
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“The newspaper had an article about Arnold Palmer winning the Masters,” he said before he and others popped the lid off the capsule to reveal the perfectly preserved artifacts.
Stored away inside was that newspaper copy, an unusual Bible that features the first three pages upside down, plus an envelope with a quarter, dime, nickel and penny inside.
According to classmate Karen Schneider, 68, of Bensalem, students didn’t think the same currency would be used 50 years in the future when they put it in the capsule.
Also inside was a copy of the Constitution of the United States, a copy of the school curriculum, an entertainment Playbill, a school menu, a copy of the school newspaper that did not have a name at the time, and onion paper signed by all the students and faculty.
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