Evelyn Deveraux was the first town clerk in Holyrood in 1969.
She recalls the first council meeting. The town opened a 30-year-old time capsule yesterday to kick-off Holyrood 50 Come Home Year celebrations. In it were the the handwritten council notes from that first meeting, an occasion which Deveraux remembered well.
She recalls the small “shop” they used for their meetings. In the winter, she says it would get so cold, when you walked across the floor it would crack.
The first item to come out of the time capsule is the handwritten minutes of the Town of Holyrood’s first council meeting in June 1969. Also, minutes included from June 1989, year the capsule was buried. @VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/7bebQXFKmb
— Renell LeGrow VOCM (@R_LeGrowVOCM) July 12, 2019
The opening of the time capsule is just the first of almost 50 events the Town of Holyrood has planned for the massive festival, combining the annual Squid Fest, Come Home Year, and Holyrood’s 50th birthday celebrations.
The director of recreation and community events, Steve Martin, says the capsule was buried outside the local library. He says what better way to open the festival.
On July 21st at the closing of festivities, the town will again fill the capsule with new items from this year, to be returned to the ground for another 25 years.
Here are the contents of the time capsule. @townofholyrood @VOCMNEWS pic.twitter.com/2PYALGSevG
— Renell LeGrow VOCM (@R_LeGrowVOCM) July 12, 2019