Sadly, No Canned Tuna-in-Oil

Sadly, there was no canned tuna-in-oil included among the artifacts from the 1959 Mooresville High School (MHS) time capsule, which was opened at last night's Mooresville Consolidated School Corporation (MCSC) board meeting.  We have some nice photos on our "treasure trove" local history blog, thanks to Susan Haynes, MCSC chief communications officer.

Click the image below to see the photos and to read more about it.

What was inside the time capsule, if not canned tuna-in-oil?

• Several editions of the Mooresville Times and the Indianapolis newspapers from the time period;
• The 1959 MHS building dedication brochure;
• A feasibility study for consolidating the schools of Mooresville and Brown/Madison/Harrison Townships (of Morgan County);
• A photo of the MHS gymnasium under construction; and
• A typed copy of the original MHS Articles of Incorporation from the 19th century.

This is all quite interesting, but it does nothing about my appetite.  Minions, make with my din-dins.

Just a suggestion, school board members.  If you place another time capsule in the current MHS renovations, you should include canned tuna-in-oil for some future feline roving reporter from our Library.  Whoever that kitty will be, s/he will surely appreciate it.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

Opening a Copper Tin Full of Local History

Mooresville High School has announced a date on which the 1959 time capsule will be opened. The ceremony will take place at the regularly scheduled school board meeting on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, at 6:30 p.m., at the Mooresville Schools Education Center, 11 West Carlisle Street, in Mooresville.

Mooresville High School Time Capsule (1959)
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What do you think will be found inside the time capsule? Make your best guesses in our comments section.

Want to know what I'm hoping is inside?  Glad you asked.

• Canned tuna-in-oil.
• Photos of moi from one of my previous nine lives.
• More canned tuna-in-oil.
• Some of those furry meeces that we felines hide everywhere.

It will probably be all manner of interesting historical stuff, which isn't really my department, so I'll probably send Scowl-Face over to report on the action.

If you're an MHS alumnus, or if you are interested in local history, you should try to attend the school board meeting.  Time capsules are amazing things.  Maybe they'll find Al Capone's treasure, or whatever it was that Geraldo didn't find on that televised opening of that vault in Chicago way back whenever.

Your Roving Reporter On The Go,

Cauli Le Chat

P.S.  In this video, Geraldo Rivera recalls opening Al Capone's vault in Chicago on live television in 1986.