It will be featured during a ceremony at 6:30 p.m. July 16, just before a vintage base ball game at Oxford Community Park, which begins at 7 p.m.
Things in the time capsule include the proclamation for Oxford’s bicentennial, city maps, county maps, phone books, a rendering of the new high school being built, photographs from the University, Uptown and various things around town and different menus from restaurants.
“It has to be smaller things because the time capsule isn’t very big. Someone said I have to put a Twinkie in, so I guess I need to get that, and I’ve had a lot of children say to put in those silly bracelets (Silly Bandz),” said City councilwoman Kate Currie, who has been working on the bicentennial plans, including the time capsule.
The time capsule itself was built by Karl Reiff, and he is making sure it is impermeable.
“It has been a great discussion about where to put the time capsule, whether it goes in the ground in front of the sculpture, or in the ground below the sculpture. You don’t want people to say where it’s being buried because people will dig it up,” Currie said.
It will be possible to take the time capsule out in the future because the bolts can be removed on the sculpture, but Currie hopes it will remain enclosed for hundreds of years.
Oxford also had a time capsule in the 1970s for the United States bicentennial, but it was accidentally dug up when the parks Uptown were redone.
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