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Saturday, May 19, 2007
In just over a week, the church I serve is going to fill a new time capsule with archival documents and place it inside the cornerstone. The date has real meaning: May 27 will be exactly 100 years to the day since the first capsule found a home in 1907. The original time capsule didn't fare too well. Half of its contents had been destroyed, either by a 1914 fire or by tuckpointing done in 2004.
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