Amanda (Maggetti) Brownell reads a letter she wrote as a fifth grader that described the music and entertainment from 1999. The letter was among the newspapers, school pennants, Beanie Babies and cassette tapes found in a time capsule buried 25 years ago.
Photo by Liz Carnegie
EASTPOINTE — Toward the end of 1999, when there was talk of Y2K and what the future would look like in the 2000s and beyond, the Kantner Elementary School community found a way to immortalize the time period.
Students and staff filled a 3-foot-long time capsule with a number of items that were a staple of the 1990s. Amanda (Maggetti) Brownell was a fifth grader at Kantner when her dad Sam Maggetti designed and made the time capsule with PVC piping. The container was buried into the ground the same evening the school held a ceremony to dedicate its new marquee on Toepfer Ave…