Pick one year from your life, and add something to the time capsule:

[bertha katzenengel]

The only rule is that it has to be from a year in which you have lived.

It can be something historical, something from the news, something about entertainment, sports, literature, or something from your own life.

I pick 1976, and a photo I made of my favorite teacher, Mr. Baker.

But if I were to pick something everyone knows about, I'd pick 1986, and this cover of Time magazine:

[MissMillie]

1. 1987--my kid

you're planning on burying this thing... right? :evilgrin:

[bertha katzenengel]

3. LOL

Send your kid to his (her? sorry) room. Chances are s/he'll be buried in there, no? ;)

[AlCzervik]

2. here you go

[auntAgonist]

4. Aug 16th 1977

The day Elvis Presley died. We were out to dinner, dessert was served and a diamond ring was presented along with a marriage proposal from my now ex husband.

1983 May 23: my one and only biological child arrived.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. Wow. Eventful day.

What would you put into the time capsule? The ring? A newspaper clipping? A copy of your divorce decree?

:hi: K!

[auntAgonist]

14. the ring

was made into a different setting. Probably the newspaper clipping.

:hi: K!

[Clintmax]

6. 1994...

And I'd insert a bumper sticker for station KHOT 106.7 (Hot 106.7) in Springfield, Missouri. That was my favorite station of all time, and it went on the air in 1994.

For something EVERYONE would know...I'd put in a Bill Clinton election poster!

[demnan]

7. This:

http://www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Sat-91501.index.html

[bertha katzenengel]

12. Excellent.

[MalibuChloe]

8. 1986 - sad

[bertha katzenengel]

31. One of those "flashbulb memories" - "where were you when . . . "

Very sad indeed.

[Shell Beau]

9. 1996-

the year I graduated high school, the year I started college, the year my great-grandmother died, the year my grandfather died, and most importantly, the year my oldest brother was killed. I would put in the lock of hair that I have of his. It would bring back all of those memories of that year. That was the best year and the worst year of my life. It is the year that has changed me most!

[unhappycamper]

10. My I-was-there moment:

[Heidi]

11. Gosh. Two things that changed my life.

John Lennon's death in December of my senior year in high school.



And the night a few years ago when Mr. Heidi, who I was "seeing" at the time, pushed his pan of watercolors across the desk and said, "Do paint."

[bertha katzenengel]

15. had you not painted before that moment?

or was it a kind of "I'll show you yours if . . . " thing? ;)

[Heidi]

16. No, I took seventh grade art.

Then I became a journalist. I actually came to Europe for a writing sabbatical, then started painting. (I don't get that easily sidetracked anymore. ;) )

[GalleryGod]

13. 1967, My Summer in San Francisco

My Aunt & Uncle got me a job as a camp counselor for 5 weeks in the Sierra Nevada mountains. :shrug:

But for 2 weeks before and the 2 weeks after-I lived with them in San Francisco in their "Condo" ( before we had a term for it!)

For all you children it was.....
:hippie: :hippie: The Summer of Love :hippie: :hippie:
and The Haight was in bloom.

Met Joplin, The Quicksilver Messenger Service, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and Slick,Balens and the Airplane!

Can't forget the "House Band" of Golden Gate Park: The Dead!

[Rambis]

18. I wish that was my year

I miss Jerry big time. I just had somebody say the other day that the deal on the Garcia solo record was the finest rock and roll he has ever heard.

[Richardo]

17. My seventh birthday, 1963

:cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

20. No way.

I was born 2/22 that year. :cry:

I always figured you were younger than me, Richardo!

[Richardo]

21. Way.

I'm a geezer, 'tis true!

[progmom]

19. 2002 - The Birth of Progspawn

[Rising Phoenix]

22. adorable, great smile!

[Ptah]

23. October 4, 1957

[JimmyJazz]

24. 1972:

I did this as a free association. It was the first thing that came to mind when I read your post.

on edit: oops. I had the wrong year. 1972, Munich - not 1976.

[bertha katzenengel]

25. oh, man...

I know what that is, but I don't remember it, even though I was 13 years old. :cry:

On edit: I was nine years old. Not that I care if anyone thinks I'm 42 or 46 or 90.

:hi: JJ - don't worry. :)

[WeRQ4U]

26. February 22, 1980 - USA v. USSR

"Do you believe in Miracles.................YES!!!"



That moment gives me the chills whenever I see it. I was only 2 when it happened, but my mom talks about it all the time. The country was beside itself.

[bertha katzenengel]

27. It. Was. Amazing.

The Cold War was scary. The USSR was a REAL threat, and even their hockey team was seen as dangerous. It was a huge moment for Team USA. I'll never forget it. I'll probably hear Al Michaels' voice on my death bed -- that call, and "I tell you we're having an earthqua--" (1989 World Series).

[WeRQ4U]

28. Oh, I remember the World Series Earthquake....

That was surreal.

[bearfan454]

29. 1986

The 85 Bears made my lifetime dream in sports come true in Super Bowl 20 in 1986. I was 30 years old.

[bertha katzenengel]

30. Sweetness.

Sigh. I've had such a moment myself (02 World Series).

:hi: Good to see you, Bearfan.

[bearfan454]

39. Good to see you too Bertha.

:hi:

[bamacrat]

32. March 2001

My only trip to NYC i got to see the Twin Towers. I thought it was cool, I have a neat picture i took of the skyline when i was on top of the statue of liberty. Another date would be April 8, 1994: Kurt Cobain found slain. and it rhymed

[MadHound]

33. Here's something for you

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Significant to me because it was the on the day after Kent State that I became politically active, joining a protest against the killings on the University of Missouri campus, where we took over McCallister Park and renamed it Peace Park, which it has remained to this day. I was nine years old at the time.

[billyskank]

34. 5th June, 1989

Tiananmen Square. We all saw what Chinese Communism was really all about.



I notice nobody has picked the 11th September 2001 yet...

[no name no slogan]

35. Year: 1991 (me), 1989 (history)

The year I graduated college, the year I went to live in the UK, which was a defining moment in my life. I was there, all alone at first, and had to find a job and housing AND make new friends all on my own. I proved to myself that I could do it, and that I could survive.

For the time capsule, I'd put in a piece of the Berlin Wall, which the people of Europe tore down in November, 1989

[bertha katzenengel]

36. that personal one is an excellent thing to think of when you're down

:bounce:
:pals:

[Jamison]

37. 1993

I was a junior in HS then.

Here is Clinton being inaugurated that year. Man I miss this guy in the WH!

[usedtobesick]

38. I pick 2005

and I think we as a communtiy ought to put Sundog in there. Let him keep safe and sound for future generations to enjoy.