Time capsule will return to State House in June
May 20, 2015 | In the PressFrom The Boston Globe (http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/20/time-capsule-will-return-state-house/Mul4DkrnYRFFcM5zxWBI2I/story.html)
A time capsule plucked from beneath the State House in December amid concern about water damage, opened in a televised ceremony, and displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts is headed back to its resting place.
On June 17, in a public ceremony, a group of Masons will march up Park Street to the State House, where they will be greeted by Secretary of State William Galvin.
Galvin, Governor Charlie Baker, and Harvey Waugh, the 88th Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, will participate in the placement of the time capsule beneath the cornerstone.
The rite will not be quite as grand as the July 4, 1795, ceremony that saw a group of 15 white horses pulling the cornerstone for the new State House through the streets of Boston to the building site.
There, Governor Samuel Adams and two prominent Masons, Paul Revere and William Scollay, placed the original contents of the time capsule beneath the cornerstone.
Workers came across the capsule in 1855 when building an addition to the State House. The items were cleaned and cataloged, and officials added several from their own era.
Among the contents lifted from the box in a January unveiling: neatly folded newspapers, a collection of 23 coins dating as far back as 1652, a medal depicting George Washington, and a silver plate commemorating the building of the new State House.
