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Time Capsule Buried in Delaware Water Gap

MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP — A time capsule filled to the brim with photos and artifacts from 2016 was buried in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreatio...
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MIDDLE SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP -- A time capsule filled to the brim with photos and artifacts from 2016 was buried in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Friday morning.

A snapshot in time is carefully lowered into the ground this Earth Day and then with a few quick shovels, it’s buried for the next fifty years here in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

“We are commemorating our 50th anniversary from 2015 and the national park service 100th anniversary in 2016 with what we’re calling a ‘Snapshot in Time,’’ said Kathleen Sandt, a spokeswoman with the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Inside are photos, current ranger uniforms, smartphones, and letters from students in the East Stroudsburg Area School District.

“It just means a lot to me because I grew up in this park, my dad’s been working here. The park blessed us financially and in every other way possible,” said Dakota Kross, a junior.

Kross, like many in the Poconos, enjoys the beauty of the park and has worked to help preserve it.

“The river cleanups we just pick up garbage, put it in bags, and competed who could get the most garbage, it was just fun while also helping the park,” added Kross.

All of the items buried inside this time capsule were carefully preserved so when it’s unearthed 50 years from now, they’ll all end up in the national park’s museum.

Sandt added, "We processed them and stored them in such a way that they will last for the next 50 years but also for generations to come after that.”

Many of these students hope to be here in the national park when the time capsule surfaces again to see just how much has changed and what people think of 2016.

“Maybe they will think it’s kind of wild, maybe there will be things totally different like they put the whole uniform for the park rangers in, that’s probably going to be totally different in 50 years, it might not even exist, you never know,” said Sophomore Genni Martinelli.

 

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