All-American Picnic and Time Capsule Opening
Friday, June 26
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Chelsea District Library
Library Lawn, Katie's Korner on the Library Lawn, Reading GardenBring your picnic dinners, and the library will provide cookies, lemonade, live music, and kids crafts! At 6:30pm, witness the unearthing of a literal story: the 1976 Bicentennial time capsule!
That’s right, in 1976, Chelsea residents buried a time capsule in the library lawn to be opened 50 years later. Local families were invited to put family records, souvenirs, voice recordings, and letters inside the time capsule, to be distributed to their future descendants upon the capsule’s opening. Newborn baby Jayme Ayn Spears, the Chelsea baby born closest to the date of the time capsule burial, was named “keeper of the key” and given the honor of presiding at the future opening of the capsule. 50 years have come and gone, and it’s time to Unearth a Story! Jayme Ayn Bollinger (neé Spears) will open the capsule and help distribute the contents.
AGE GROUP: | Youth | Families | All Ages | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Music, Arts, & History |
Chelsea District Library
The Chelsea District Library is a single branch library serving the City of Chelsea and surrounding townships. The library has 4 small study rooms, one medium meeting room, and the McKune room, our main programming room.
