{"id":11816,"date":"2015-01-13T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11816"},"modified":"2015-01-13T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:25:37","slug":"peek-into-the-past-aicmfa-bostons-pam-hatchfield-opens-reveres-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/13\/peek-into-the-past-aicmfa-bostons-pam-hatchfield-opens-reveres-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Peek into the past: AIC\/MFA Boston&#039;s Pam Hatchfield Opens Revere&#039;s Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_11818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11818\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wgbhnews.org\/post\/nations-oldest-time-capsule-opened\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11818\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WGBH-TimeCapsule-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Hatchfield appears on WGBH Greater Boston to discuss opening the time capsule.\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Hatchfield appears on WGBH Greater Boston to discuss opening the time capsule.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nConservator <strong>Pam Hatchfield<\/strong>, head of objects conservation at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and AIC&#8217;s board president, had the rare opportunity to excavate\u00a0and open the oldest known time capsule in the U.S. The capsule was stored in the Massachusetts\u00a0State House, wedged tight inside a cornerstone, and Hatchfield spent 7 hours carefully removing it. On January 6th, Hatchfield opened the box and removed its\u00a0contents\u00a0using\u00a0a variety of tools, including a porcupine quill.<br \/>\nHatchfield appeared on a local news show, Greater Boston on WGBH News, to discuss the time capsule and her process, accompanied by\u00a0<strong>Michael Comeau<\/strong>, the executive director of the Massachusetts Archives\u00a0and Commonwealth Museum. They talked with\u00a0WGBH News Arts Editor\u00a0<strong>Jared Bowen. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wgbhnews.org\/post\/nations-oldest-time-capsule-opened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can watch the\u00a0video of the interview\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservator Pam Hatchfield, head of objects conservation at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and AIC&#8217;s board president, had the rare opportunity to excavate\u00a0and open the oldest known time capsule in the U.S. The capsule was stored in the Massachusetts\u00a0State House, wedged tight inside a cornerstone, and Hatchfield spent 7 hours carefully removing it. On January &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/13\/peek-into-the-past-aicmfa-bostons-pam-hatchfield-opens-reveres-time-capsule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peek into the past: AIC\/MFA Boston&#039;s Pam Hatchfield Opens Revere&#039;s Time Capsule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aic-faic","category-in-the-news","category-outreach-and-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}