SEWARD, Neb. (KOLN) – Fifty years after it was dedicated by Seward businessman Harold Davisson, what’s considered to be the “World’s Largest Time Capsule” will open to the public in Seward on July 4.
His daughter, Trish Davisson Johnson, is going to be facilitating this big event. “In 1975, my dad was concerned that his grandchildren would not remember him,” Johnson said. “He wanted a way to preserve the culture of 1975 for his grandchildren and the future. He decided that building a time capsule in the ground would be the best way to do it.”
Davisson was a Seward historian, entrepreneur, and later operated Davisson Furniture Center. His daughter Trish Davisson Johnson now carries on his legacy, and is overseeing the effort to open the time capsule. Johnson says a 1975 Chevy Vega with zero miles was put inside the time capsule, but she says what is even more intriguing are the many unopened letters that are going to be found inside from people in Seward, and around the world. “The vault is roughly five feet below ground level,” Johnson said. “People wrote to their children, grandchildren, and even themselves. There may be more than 5,000 letters in there. We are all going to be surprised together.”…