Quinn and others spoke of the importance of history. Quinn, who named off some historical differencesīetween 20, “there was no television at all.” Some students gasped. “And get this,” the City Council speaker, Christine C. The children were agog at the television cameras. On Thursday afternoon, two fifth-grade classes - made up of 51 notebook-toting students - crowded into a fourth-floor room at the New-York Historical Society to sign the capsule over to the society. Its contents offered a window into the history of the school, which opened with 51 students on May 25, 1818, as Grammar School No. The box contained songs, school stories, a list of promising graduatesĪnd a medal students received upon graduation. The box dates to 1917, when the United States was engaged in World War I, Woodrow Wilson was president and New York City had just a few subway lines. “Our teacher opened it and we found all these old documents and stuff and this medal.” “Our teacher brought the time capsule to our classroom,” said Zach Lamariana, 11, describing the day the copper box was discovered behind a brass plaque by a constructionĬrew doing renovations. That’s because putting together a time capsule is an annual project for the class. Perfectly when a 92-year-old time capsule turned up at their school. It can be hard for children to grasp the meaning and scope of history, but a group of fifth graders at Public School 3 in Greenwich Village understood (Photos: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times) At the New-York Historical Society, a conservator, Alan Balicki, put the contents on display, joined by fifth graders from the school. A time capsule, buried inside a wall behind a plaque in a Greenwich Village school in 1917, was discovered by workers at Public School 3.
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