Mari Sandoz Heritage Society Board Members Sybil Berndt and Christy Chamberlin during the Thursday afternoon board meeting in the atrium at the Sandoz Center at Chadron State College

2017 Pilster Lecturer, Walter Echo Hawk

2017 Sandoz Symposium opening speaker, Nebraska State Poet from 2013 to 2018, Twyla Hansen

One of the Symposium's morning presenters and Director of the High Plains Herbarium, Steve Rolfsmeier

2017 Sandoz Scholar, Robert Roy Foresman

John Wunder, board member emeritus of the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society leading a discussion about Mari's 50 year predictions from a previous time capsule found in the cornerstone of an Omaha television station.

Mari Sandoz Heritage Society board members Ron Hull and Deb Nolting and member of the Nebraska 150 Committee, Becky Herian recognizing the Sandoz time capsule as one of the official Sesquicentennial events.

Lucinda Mays, Chadron State College Horticulturalist providing instructions for the time capsule burial in front of the Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center on the campus of CSC.

Don Green lifting one of the first shovels full of dirt from the hole where the time capsule would be buried. Watching from the background are Mari Sandoz Heritage Society President Lynn Roper, and Vice-President Dan Kusek.