Charles Lammers had to ask the Ranch Events Complex to remove a door frame in order to bring the giant 7-by-3-foot Colorado Capsule inside the building. Visitors to the Larimer County Fair stood and watched as Lammers and another worker rolled the capsule it into place, right next to a sign that reads in bold letters: “Be a part of Colorado’s History.”
“It’s open to any Colorado resident to submit any story, any artifact, anything that means something to them that they would like the future to know,” Lammers, the Destination Marketing Manager with Visit Loveland, said. “It’s not our capsule. It’s the whole state’s.”
Visit Loveland has been taking this time capsule all around Colorado this summer – in honor of the state’s 150th birthday – to collect photos, letters and other objects that show what life is like in 2026. Then, it will be buried at the Ranch to be opened 50 years later, in 2076.
This is the state’s largest capsule, according to Lammers. That’s a good thing, because he has already received over 100 submissions of items to add. But he said the time capsule – which is made out of a water main pipe – is nowhere close to full…