Today will be a pretty cool day the at the US Military Academy at West Point. You see, they found an old time time capsule from the 1820s there recently, and today they will open it up and see what the cadets from 200 years ago left behind for posterity.
We are "posterity," don't you know...
In May, while workers were doing restoration to a monument honoring Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, they came upon this lead box, about a cubic foot in size.
Kosciuszko was a Polish military engineer, who came here to serve the Continental Army and assisted in designing military fortifications along the Hudson River. The military academy was founded there in 1802.
Things were much different in the 1820s for America's future Army officers. About 40 cadets were graduated per year in those days, having completed their military education in wooden barracks that had no running water.
The box has been x-rayed, and it seems there is a box inside...but what's in the box? A box of air, a box of old memorabilia, a box of rain...?
“It’s a mystery, right? A mystery of history,” says Jennifer Voigtschild, the academy’s command historian.
We'll find out today. Watch this space!
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