From Farm Tools to Time Capsules: How Mercer Changed How We Preserve America’s Heritage—Including Its Celestial Clues

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From Farm Tools to Time Capsules: How Mercer Changed How We Preserve America’s Heritage — Including Its Celestial Clues For decades, preserving America’s cultural and historical legacy has relied on archives, museums, and written records. But a quiet revolution is reshaping how we honor our past — one rooted in farm tools and deep beneath the earth in time capsules. At Mercer, a trailblazing heritage organization, the fusion of traditional farm tools and innovative time capsule preservation is redefining how we safeguard America’s ancestral stories — including cryptic celestial clues that reveal early settlers’ understanding of the cosmos. ### From the Fields to the Vault: Mercer’s Unique Approach to Heritage Preservation Mercer has long championed the idea that everyday objects tell powerful cultural stories. At first glance, this may seem modest: farming tools, rusted plows, handcrafted sickles — relics of labor and survival. But Mercer frames these instruments not just as tools of subsistence, but as tangible links to how early Americans interacted with the land, nature, and sky.