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Skip to main content The story behind what s hidden beneath the Ben Franklin Statue in SF s Washington Square Park FacebookTwitterEmail A statue of Benjamin Franklin is seen in the center of Washington Square Park in San Francisco on Feb. 5, 2021. In the pedestal of the statue is a time capsule that was place inside in 1979 and will be opened in 2079.Douglas Zimmerman/SFGATE It’s unclear what Dr. Henry Cogswell was trying to say about the life of San Franciscans in 1879 when he placed a string of buttons in his time capsule in Washington Square Park. Perhaps it went just as he planned, playing a joke 100 years in the making, as Supervisor John Molinari immediately broke the string during the 1979 unveiling, scattering buttons everywhere during the ceremony. ....
The incredibly racist San Francisco man who became dictator of Nicaragua FacebookTwitterEmail William Walker did not have the look of a conqueror. He was slim with thin, light hair and grey eyes that were a little too close together. His cheekbones were unnaturally high, giving his face a sickly gauntness. Newspapers compared him often to Napoleon, both because of his size and his ambition. In the summer of 1853, because William Walker was a narcissist and a racist, he decided he wanted to be the president of a country. He is not particular about locality whether in Lower California, Sonora, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or elsewhere,” the Sacramento Bee wrote, “so that he can only be made President and Dictator of some populated spot on this hemisphere. ....