Our neighborhood started a community time capsule project for our town's bicentennial, but it's become a battleground over whose version of our community's story gets preserved, with longtime residents and newer families having completely different ideas about what represents us.
More people experience this than they realize.
The act of deciding what deserves to be remembered forces communities to confront whose stories have been centered and whose have been erased.
“Where Are You with Time capsules and messages to the future?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.