Workers began emptying the time capsule vault in advance of the town's annual Fourth of July celebration. You can see the ...

Varner reminisced about how much Seward’s downtown square has changed in the decades since. He called the celebration ...

Seward businessman Harold Davisson, what’s considered to be the “World’s Largest Time Capsule” will open to the public in ...

"This is a glimpse into life in 1975," Trish Johnson, Harold Davisson's daughter, said. "It's also a glimpse into, first of ...

Chevrolet Vega and Kawasaki motorcycle, both tucked inside the capsule in Seward 50 years ago, were in pristine condition.

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