A Novato time capsule which was just retrieved a couple of weeks ago after being buried for over a hundred years under the City Hall building, and hopes were high that the contents would reveal a glimpse of society in the late 1800s.
Alas, the Bible, newspapers and whatever else was stowed in the metal, cigar-shaped box were soggy and heavily damaged due to water seepage.
Karen Zukor, the woman hired to restore the damaged contents, has admitted 
that most of the material is not worth saving. She said it would cost 'thousands of dollars' to continue the tedious restoration process and the City of Novato has already spent over $800 on her services already.
is renovating City Hall, which once was a church. Congregation members buried the time capsule when the building was erected back in 1896. A newspaper, The Petalumian, was barely legible, but the Bible was not. Zukor said it would have to be dried page by page in order to be read. But Zukor says she is unable to restore church papers that were stored inside the Bible.
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