Ottakee Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 If you could go back in time for a visit---say a day or week or so---what time period and where would you go? I think it would be very interesting to go back to about 1800 to the area where we live now...........and then about 1885 to this same area. Things have changed so much. In 1800 there were still Native Americans in this area (long time distance relatives of dh's tribe) and then in 1885 this area was a hopping lumber village with a train, hotel, paddle boat, stores, etc. Now the area that was the town is a township park with horse trails with just one foundation of a house left to see. You can still see the old rail road grade but it is mostly overgrown now. I don't want to STAY very long but would love to see what our place looked like 125 years ago---supposedly a bigger farm. Our township at one point was mostly swamp land, and then at another point had lots of sand dunes (think beach sand). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I'd go back about twenty years and give my younger self a few pointers on dealing with bullies. Along with some winning lottery numbers. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto10blessings Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I would love to go back in time to the year I was born to see what my mom and dad were like back then. Or maybe to when my first child was born so I could laugh at how young I was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spryte Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Chaco Canyon, 1150 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I would like to go back in time to when my paternal grandpa and maternal grandma were still alive. My paternal grandpa died before I was born and my maternal grandma died when I was a toddler. I supposedly take after my maternal grandma's personality and it would be interesting to see how "true" that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I'd like to go to Uganda in around 1927, to see where my mother was born and where she lived for her first few years. I'd like to meet her as a small child, before separation from parents, early boarding school and war trauma did their damage. And Kent in about 1936, when my father was small and before his traumatic evacuation to Canada for the war years. Oh, and I'd like to see Shakespeare actually writing the plays, so we could dispense with the tiresome 'who wrote Shakespeare' issue. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Just one spot in time? I have several. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 There's a small girl back in 1950's England I'd like to be able to play fairy godmother to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I want to go back about 10 years or soand sit with both my Oma and Nana for a long, long time listening,, talking, laughing and lots of hugs. I miss them both so very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I couldn't go back and change anything because that would potentially change things now. But I'd go back to the time when Stonehenge was built and find out what they thought they were actually building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbel Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Elizabethan England. Even though I know it wouldn't look much like it's depicted at a Renaissance Faire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted September 2, 2013 Author Share Posted September 2, 2013 This is why I always loved the TV show Voyagers when I was younger. They got to go to all of the neat places/times in history but didn't have to stay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 October 1970, a little racetrack outside St. Louis. I'd change the course of my dh's future in a good way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 The Library of Alexandria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I would go back to the early 1900s and hang out with Indiana Jones. Oh wait.... That wasn't real? 😄 Too many times and places to list. I would need a TARDIS to fit it all in. But yes, I would enjoy visiting the era of my father's youth. I would love to see the actual happenings of the whole Biblical narrative. I am enjoying reading all your answers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morganvicky98 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 The Temple in Jerusalem. It is supposed to be the holiest place on earth in history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasider Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Ottakee, I often find myself looking out over a landscape and trying to envision it before the modern era took hold. No highways or paved roads, no power lines, no communications towers. It's sort of a game I play by myself. It would be fun to be able to dart back in time and see if my imagination got it right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsMommy Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Everywhere and everywhen? I was just thinking about this last week, because I'd love to see the area we live in as it once was. We're not too terribly far from Cahokia Mounds (if you don't know what that is, you need to look it up), and I'd love to know what it looked like when there was a major metropolitan area of Mississippian Indians here, and see how they lived and worked and built the mounds. But I'd also like to have witnessed so much more. The Reformation, the American Revolution, WWII (well, maybe not the battlefield, but the life of civilians). If I had a superpower, it would be time travel. Maybe not a very practical super power, but it sure would be interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I've been reading too much Outlander, but 18th century Scotland has been sounding lovely recently. I've always loved the 1950's too. I know it's been romanticized, but I'd love to go live in the Donna Reed or Leave it to Beaver world. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I was just thinking about this last week, because I'd love to see the area we live in as it once was. We're not too terribly far from Cahokia Mounds (if you don't know what that is, you need to look it up), and I'd love to know what it looked like when there was a major metropolitan area of Mississippian Indians here, and see how they lived and worked and built the mounds. Have you been to Poverty Point? It is pretty fascinating. http://www.nps.gov/popo/index.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillfarm Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I'd love to go skipping back, like a stone, to follow my family's genealogy. I'd love to talk with all the young women and mothers to get straight on who was the child of whom. And I would also love a peek at the lives of the Adena, Hopewell and Moundbuilder Indians who lived in my area. I'd especially love to know whether they used drop spindles to spin, how they prepared their plant materials for fiber, and what methods they used for making cloth. I've read so many scientific theories and studies, I'd love to just know for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa in Jax Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 #1 without a doubt: I'd go back to about 1980 when I was a pain in the a$$ teenager. I'd have a conversation with my father, if I thought I could do so without spooking him, and I'd tell him what a FABULOUS father he was, and how much his values resonate in my life, even 28 years after his death. If there were other trips available, I'd go back to 1907-08 Chicago, so that I might interact with my paternal great-grandparents (GGM is a genealogical mystery) and my paternal great-great-grandparents, and if I could find a way to take photos? Oh, heaven! I'd try to take pictures of my paternal grandmother a baby (they few that existed were "lost" when my step-grandfather remarried after her death). I'd go to my maternal grandparents' homestead and find the photos my great-grandfather took when he trekked from LA to TX in 1909-10 before they were thrown away (<GAK!>). Then I'd add them to the book I made from the journal he kept of the trip. No kings or queens or historical events for me: ancestors, ancestors, ancestors in their own time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 I would want to be with Jesus as he taught the multitudes. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
celticmom Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I would love to see ordinary life during the early middle ages, but only if I can come back to modern sanitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 I'd go back to when my twins were 18 months and get the one who ended up needing meds into the neurologist THEN, and not at age 5. Then I'd go back to the 1960s and get family history info out of my grandparents. Then I'd go back to the 1800s and spy on my ancestors. Then for fun, I'd go to Hollywood about 1915 and then 1925 and spy on the filmmakers to satisfy my love of early silent cinema. Plus I'd sneak into the studio and steal a complete 40-reel copy of the film Greed and put it somewhere safe for the me in 2013 to find and restore. Oh, and I'd go back a year or so and find out where I put an assortment of old family photos that I now can NOT FIND!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Reminds me of the book The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis...time travel. Like the character in that book, I'd love to experience medieval times--with good vaccines and a few modern drugs in my pocket. I'd like to see travelers on the Oregon trail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Someone needs to go back and archive all the old Dr Who episodes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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