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A Letter To The Future

This document contains letters from a teacher in 1917 and a teacher in 2017 about time capsules buried 100 years apart. The 1917 letter describes items placed in a time capsule including a newspaper, grocery receipt, desk phone, class photo, and bus schedule. The 2017 letter describes similar modern replacements - a local newspaper, supermarket flyer, cell phone, student flash drive, and football schedule. Both teachers hope the future readers find the items interesting and are living in a peaceful world.

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A Letter To The Future

This document contains letters from a teacher in 1917 and a teacher in 2017 about time capsules buried 100 years apart. The 1917 letter describes items placed in a time capsule including a newspaper, grocery receipt, desk phone, class photo, and bus schedule. The 2017 letter describes similar modern replacements - a local newspaper, supermarket flyer, cell phone, student flash drive, and football schedule. Both teachers hope the future readers find the items interesting and are living in a peaceful world.

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A Letter to 1917 Time Capsule Contents:

• The New York Times. The national newspaper

the Future has news of the Great War on the front page.

• Grocery Store Receipt. A dozen eggs cost


$0.39.

• Desk Phone. Businesses are now using


telephones to communicate rather than
only handwritten and typed letters.

• Picture of class and list of names.


A photographer took this black-and-white
picture of our class. We have seen color
photographs in National Geographic
Letter from Mrs. Conner, teacher in 1917, Magazine . . . how exciting!
Thomasville, New York:
• Bus Schedule. Most people in the city take
As I write this letter, our world is at buses to get to and from school and work.

war. My fourth-grade students and I


hope for world peace when our time
capsule is opened in one hundred years.
My students carefully chose the items
in this box to represent life in 1917. We
hope you enjoy learning about our time.

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2017 Time Capsule Contents:
• The Valley Stream Star. The front-page story is about
our local rodeo.

• Supermarket flyer. A dozen eggs cost $1.99.

• Cell phone, charger, headphones. Almost everyone


has a cell phone in 2017 and can video chat with
people across the world.

• Flash drive. Students put their homework, favorite


music, and photos onto the drive. They use flash
drives with their laptops daily.

• Valley Stream High School Football Schedule. Just about


everyone in town comes to watch the home football
games.

Letter from Mrs. Stein, teacher in 2017,


Valley Stream, Texas:
Greetings from the past! Our fourth-grade class
enjoyed reading an article about the time capsule
buried by Mrs. Conner and her class in 1917. The
article included the original letter and pictures of the
artifacts. We decided to make our own time capsule to
be opened one hundred years from now—in 2117. My
students chose each item carefully, just as the students
in the class one hundred years ago did. We hope that
you are reading this in a peaceful world.
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