there we go welcome thank you all for coming looks like there's some more stragglers but all of you that came really appreciate having you here this is a very we feel momentous occasion yeah they do want to say we've had a contra dance and any number of community building activities to remind us that here we are two hundred fifty years after mr underhill lent his name to our town it was decided  the year that a time capsule might be a good thing to do a time capsule that might give folks in the future some idea of what underhill was about at this particular point in time needless to say many of us that have lived here i was born here more than fifty years ago probably won't see the opening of this particular capsule but we have dug up interesting things from fifty and a hundred and two hundred years ago in the community of significant interest  you as chairman of our time capsule committee and as a matter of fact pretty much chairman of our hold two hundred fiftieth celebration a little bit about what's in the capsule and what we hope folks will do with it rick  and i want to add that my new goal is to be here when we open this fifty years from now i think it says that it's a good goal to have i don't imagine it will come true but but it's something for me to look forward to so what i'd like to do is to read a piece that we put together with the intent of folks fifty years from now finding this inside the capsule because we did put it in the capsule so i'm going to read this letter to to our future residents fifty years from now letter to twenty sixty three dear friends neighbors and defendants of underhill if you are reading this then we are somewhat successful fifty years ago we celebrated under hills two hundred fiftieth birthday by looking back and musing ahead we wonder if at the town's three hundredth anniversary you will do the same what you have come across here are our musings this time capsule was a community effort to gather and show you a little of underhill and the world of and thirteen there is nothing of great economic value here in sorry but we have assembled some things that might give you a glimpse of our era and some of our guesses as to what you might be dealing with fifty years hence these items break down into several categories the town schools churches various organizations sports games toys technology fashion publications politics food and economics we have well over four hundred items in this small time capsule i should say initially we we debated what to use as a time capsule there are all sorts you see little ones and and most of those are very expensive and we've learned most of them fail we came up with our own sullivan this has got to be unique this alone will go down in history and in the whole we committed these things with community some support and ceremony obviously here here today all of us and we are hoping that you will recover them in the same way we hope that before dispersal or disposal you will be able to display these pieces of the past in a local public place the town hall or a school with some support from entities involved churches schools etc we hope that our school children's predictions will be shared with current students and maybe by the media i'm not sure if all folks know but we had some we put out to the local schools the option to provide predictions starting with who the kids were today and what they think things will be like in the future and where they expect to be fifty years from now and we did receive back well maybe about one hundred of those so those are so precious that we we actually hated to put them in the capsule in a way and were hoping that some of them were photocopied because they were so dear to read we hope that you will contribute the town community items to the town historical society the technology things will surely be inoperative artifacts we trust you will find good homes for them we wonder if any of them will work the sports things games and toys should be auctioned off to benefit the historical society which we all hope is thriving we have had fun celebrating this past year our community a two hundred fifty years of age it was good getting all of our residents to think of underhill as our home town it's a good town our wishes go forward to you hoping that you love and respect underhill in twenty sixty three as we of underhill so that's what we have to say gail boardman and tells us don't worry about it don't worry about it we're going to dig a hole how deep we're going to bury what how don't worry about it anyway so this is our committee a sort of subcommittee but i want to offer just briefly does anyone have a question for our committee as to like what we did how we did it do you have any questions someone must have a that's a really good question i can hardly wait to see it it looks like they're going to put a hook on it right here and somehow these cables are going to hold it just from the side and then to pick it up put it over and drop it in the h then we're going to put some gravel on top put a tarp and then we're going to let all you folks shovel in the last of the dirt we have lots of shovels  ground and you just have to apply pressure to the lead long enough and heavy enough almost lifted off the ground to break the suction of the of the seal is we intend to put a concrete pad on top of this once we bury it will leave recession recession in the ground and hope to have the concrete pad about maybe six hundred pounds ten bags of concrete and then we're going to the capsule but also so that teenagers in the future don't get the bright idea of prying it up and rolling it down the hell and we think the time capsule is down there and the other last questions sorts of household items newspapers lots lots of current periodicals and magazines and in everything we could pick up from the local businesses that they were willing to donate to us the churches an organization so there's deeply other members of the committee not i don't think any of this would have happened rick took charge way back almost two and a half years ago just about and boy he's been going steady ever since as his wife mary she'll tell you and  what he pulled off here was just nothing short of amazing and and terrific i just want to thank you and make thank you  now i'm amazed myself by someone in disbelief that we're really doing this this is pretty much our last official activity of our committee like you know had mentioned we've done many things including a historical bus tour where yale was our guide throughout the entire town we took fifty town residents we filled the bus drove all through town and spoke of all the historical sites and it was a wonderful day but this is the last of our official activities for our two hundred