- May 17, 2025
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Windermere Mayor Jim O’Brien welcomed guests to the ceremony.
Attendees waited eagerly to see the contents of the time capsule.
Windermere Mayor Jim O’Brien retrieved the time capsule — an ammunition box — from its home of 50 years in front of Windermere Town Hall.
It took quite a bit of elbow grease to open the time capsule.
The time capsule included a copy of the Windermere 50th Anniversary Program. The celebration took place April 27 to May 3, 1975.
Included in the time capsule was a letter from John Luff, who the Windermere Country Store until 1971, was on the Windermere Town Council, served as mayor from 1968 to 1972 and also as town manager.
Doris Kinzey Kilmain, daughter of Mayor Dean Kinzey, opened the letter her father had placed in the time capsule.
Doris Kinzey Kilmain, daughter of Mayor Dean Kinzey, opened the letter her father had placed in the time capsule.
Residents loved hearing 50-year-old words of wisdom from Windermere’s leaders in 1975.
Windermere Mayor Jim O’Brien read many of the letters aloud.
Roger Benton Seidner, who served as minister of Windermere Union Church in 1975, included programs from the church’s services in April 1975.
The Rotary Club of Windermere placed club bulletins in the time capsule.
Doris Kinzey Kilmain, daughter of Mayor Dean Kinzey, said her father never revealed the contents of the time capsule to her.
Windermere Mayor Jim O’Brien read many of the letters aloud.
The time capsule included a coin, which needs to be cleaned further to be identified.
Although there were no gold bars, there was something of equal value — words of wisdom — in the 1975 town of Windermere time capsule.
The town celebrated “Unsealed: Windermere’s Journey Through Time — 1975 to 2025” — a special program to unseal the time capsule, Friday, April 25, in front of Town Hall. Mayor Jim O’Brien; Doris Kinzey Kilmain, daughter of Mayor Dean Kinzey; and longtime Windermere resident and community leader Jerry Fay all presented the contents of the time capsule.
The capsule included a variety of letters from Windermere’s leaders; a newspaper article from the West Orange Times; church programs from Windermere Union Church; bulletins from the Rotary Club of Windermere; and a mysterious coin.
The contents of the time capsule will be preserved and available to view at the town’s administration building.
O’Brien said he would like to bury a 2025 time capsule to commemorate the town’s 100th anniversary.
