Shelbyville Bicentennial Time Capsule

There's a photo of Louisville's bicentennial time capsule here, and now here's one for Shelbyville - only it's not to commemorate the nation's bicentennial. It's for that of the U.S. Constitution's creation and adoption in 1787.

(Sorta boggles the mind to think that between 1776 and 1787, we had a free and independent nation yet had no constitution at all. No law. No governance. Wooden-toothed men in powdered wigs and Masonic aprons frolicking with wild turkeys in the woods. Total chaos.)

Louisville Bicentennial Time Capsule

If you don't look closely you may mistake it for a water meter lid or something, but this cover plate for a time capsule is hidden in plain sight downtown at the corner of 7th and Main.

I think it's interesting that we as a society now hold on to our past much more than ever- especially thanks to pop culture's ability to continue reverberating long after its day, and also because of the internet's inherent archiving of everything. Because of this, I wonder if the culture shock will be all that great when people in 2075 finally open this vault. I predict that much of the contents will still be familiar and well-known to the people of the future. By contrast, the gulf between 1875 and 1975 seemed vast and relatively unfathomable in 1975.