Department Of Parks Employees Locate And Extricate The 1965 Time Capsule

Three Smithtown Parks employees, Brendan Boylan, Tim Dollard and Ed Spinella worked diligently to locate and to extricate the buried 1965 time capsule.  There was some confusion as to where the time capsule had been buried as there didn’t seem to be any written documentation. People who attended the time capsule burial 50 years ago in 1965 were not quite sure where it was buried some thought it was to the left of the entrance others to the right. Last week Parks searched the property with a metal detector to no avail. On Wednesday, the three Parks employees,* after locating the site to the left of the entrance (looking from the street) were Supervisor Patrick Vecchio with 1965 Time Capsule interrupted when they received information from the Smithtown Engineering Department. Engineering located a map with the exact location of the burial site. The map even pinpointed the location of the milk can (time capsule). What was not anticipated was a concrete slab almost 6ft long, 4ft wide and 3ft deep. It took a lot of strength, determination and in the end finesse, to wiggle the 3ft dairy can out of the cement.  The can is remarkably well preserved with no indication that what is inside has been disturbed. Brendon, Tim and Ed carried the heavy time capsule up to the Supervisor’s office where it will be secured until the big reveal on March 3, 2015.  The capsule will be opened at the scheduled Town Board meeting that is open to the public.  Until then keep guessing about what is in the time capsule!

*Article was amended to reflect the time capsule was located by the men prior to receiving the map. 

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[Keith Shields]

Since we are on the subject of Time Capsules, I was a student of Landing Elementary School on Highgate Drive in Smithtown. Over the years as a student there were a number of time capsules that had been buried on the schools property, in various locations. I was wondering if, when the school closed, and/or before or during construction of the houses now on that location, if those time capsules had been unearthed and where they are now, if anyone even knows? Just a curious former student, be curious once again.