Items from a time capsule buried by the IFB in 1961
Photo: Adam Studzinski/WJBC
Some of the items included:
- Meeting minutes from the organization's annual meeting in 1920,
- A 1941 edition of the IAA Record magazine celebrating the IFB's 25th anniversary,
- An IFB policy resolutions book from 1961,
- And a fence sign that belonged to then President Otto Steffey.
Of all the items inside, the fence sign brought out a sense of community.
“I just think it is the neatest thing,” Allison Carr, the Illinois Farm Bureau’s corporate archivist told The Pantagraph. “It shows that people cared a lot about (Steffey) and that they wanted him to be remembered in the future.
Work is already starting to fill a new time capsule that will be opened in 2066.
Current IFB President Richard Guebert said it will include letters from each county farm bureau.