The grounds of Lehigh Elementary School were the site for the Oct. 17 burial of a time capsule, filled with written documentation of memories and events relevant to life as an elementary student in Northampton County in 2022.

Students representing kindergarten through fifth grade were chosen to read their letters before they were sealed away to be read in another time by other students.

This event was extra exciting for Christina Nush, mother of second-grader Skylar Nush. Skylar was chosen to read her letter, which was placed in the time capsule. Nush was able to share her daughter’s excitement as she too had been chosen to contribute to a time capsule when she was in fifth grade at Spring Garden Elementary School, Bethlehem. Nush’s mother and Skylar’s grandmother, Joan Dwyer, said she “was proud of both her girls!”

Time capsules are compiled to represent a specific period in time. Lehigh Elementary School, 880 Blue Mountain Drive, Walnutport, was celebrating the one-year anniversary of the new school officially opening. Previous time capsules were made in 1957 and 1997.

The contents of the 1997 capsule will be on display in the school.

Unfortunately, the 1957 time capsule became water logged, since it did not benefit from being wrapped in plastic, as 1997 had been.