The stories below were all written in Mr. Vultaggio's Sixth Grade Class in 1965. The letters were sealed in a time capsule to be opened in the year 2000. In 1981 a Milpitas High School student killed his girlfriend, then brought his buddies to see the body. No one told the cops. We'd prefer to forget this crime, but it was made into a movie in 1987.
Site includes comments about the film versus what really happened.
The purpose of this history is to preserve the record of events in the building of the Sunnyhills United Methodist Church and of the persons behind those events before it becomes unalterably destroyed by imperfect memories. A poetic celebration of the United States' first planned integrated community. For a few decades in time, Alviso was on top of the world, now it's 14 feet below sea level. Alviso was a small city that was just beginning to grow at the turn of the century. But Alviso stopped growing, and has since been frozen in time.