Exhibits and events this year that feature everything from local icons to season’s greetings is getting a greenback boost from last year’s guests of Longview hospitality.
A sesquicentennial time capsule might not be buried at the Longview Public Library after all — mainly because of the capsule’s large size, City Planner Angela Choy said.
<p>It’s arrived.</p><p>A time capsule designed to preserve Longview mementos for 100 years was opened Wednesday after arriving this past week to the city’s Development Services Department.</p>
An open seat signified where Andy Khoury once sat on the Longview Historic Preservation Commission, but his contribution to planning the city’s sesquicentennial time capsule was sealed Tuesday.
<p>More events and activities are filling into next year’s Longview 150 sesquicentennial celebration.</p>
The Longview Public Library is the likely resting place of a time capsule to be buried during the city’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2020.
Dressed in costumes depicting decades throughout Longview’s 150-year history, planners for the city’s sesquicentennial celebration in 2020 posed for photos Friday outside Central Fire Station.
Longview preservationists know the city’s sesquicentennial time capsule won’t be buried at the Gregg County Courthouse, but that’s where their certainties end.
Preparing a time capsule is more than simply putting a box in the ground.
The Longview Public Library is the first customer to buy a replica hot air balloon in preparation for the city’s sesquicentennial celebration next year.