Video: 1951 Somerville Time Capsule Opened by Former Saint Polycarp Students

Former students of Somerville's Saint Polycarp School took a trip down Memory Lane at a groundbreaking ceremony.

A few envelops, an old newspaper, some parish pamphlets, a handful of prayer cards, a few medallions … and a flood of memories. That's what was found in a time capsule that had been sealed in the corner of Somerville's Saint Polycarp School in 1951 and was opened Monday, almost 62 years later, by a group of former students. The former students gathered Monday afternoon in the still existing Saint Polycarp Church building, in Winter Hill, which serves a Haitian congregation now, having closed as a Roman Catholic parish in 2002. It took some effort to open the time capsule, a hefty metal box lodged into a heavy stone block. The block, which had the year 1950 carved into it, had been placed in the corner of the former Saint Polycarp School …

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