AND HERE IT'S RISING FROM THE GROUND, EVERYONE--
100 YEARS OLD.
( big band music playing )
FOLKS, AS YOU ALL KNOW,
THIS IS THE OLDEST TIME CAPSULE IN THE COUNTRY,
BURIED HERE IN 1909 BY OUR GREAT-GRANDFATHERS
WHO FOUNDED OUR BELOVED TOWN.
NOT ONLY IS THIS AN INSIGHT
INTO THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY,
BUT ALSO INTO THE VERY FABRIC OF WHO WE ARE AS A PEOPLE.
( grunts )
LOOK!
A JART WAS IN HERE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS,
BUT IT MUST HAVE DISAPPEARED OR WITHERED AWAY.
- ( sniffs ) - OH! DEAR LORD.
THAT SMELLS AWFUL.
CHRIST ALMIGHTY.
OH OH OH. THIS IS COOL.
THIS MUST HAVE BEEN USED IN THE, UH--
IN THE COAL MINES.
THEY WOULD SOMEHOW HAVE IT STAY ON THEIR HEAD
AND THEN WITH THEIR FOREHEADS CHIP AWAY AT THE ROCK.
( chuckling )
AH... SOME LITERATURE.
"ME AND MRS. GANDY PREPARED FOR THE CAPSULE."
HEY, THAT'S MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER.
( man laughs )
YES.
"AS WE LOOKED AT THE CHEST BEFORE US,
I GAZED AT HER CHEST BEFORE ME.
AND AS WE LAID THE CHEST INTO THE SOIL,
I WILL SOON MAKE MY SOIL ON HER CHEST."
AH, HE SPREAD THE SOIL OF OUR LAND ON HIS LADY,
MAKING EARTH AND WOMEN ONE.
I DON'T-- I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY.
YES, WELL...
"MY LADY AND I THEN HAND IN HAND
SPREAD THE DOWNSTAIRS MIST FROM THE DEVIL'S CAVE
INTO THE GLASS RECEPTACLE,
THE EVIL WIND LEAVING OUR TIGHT BALLOON KNOTS
AND INTO THE FUTURE."
( sniffles )
SUCH PROFOUND WORDS FROM OUR YOUNG LOVERS.