Is there a time period or era that appeals to you?

Sometimes dreamed of been a young man discovering areas west of the Mississippi River in the early 1800's. Being a part of the Lewis and Clark expedition, discovering the continent. Or being a Mountain Man, trapping furs, and living off the land.

Sometimes I do throw the tent and backpacking supplies on the motorcycle and camp for a few days...then scurry back home ready for my soft bed.
 
oldiebutgoody said:
EXCELLENT topic.

The Gilded Age roughly encompassed the years 1870-1900. This would be my ideal time period to visit (assuming I was fully immunized to illnesses that existed and did not or could not transmit illnesses to that period). I would love to watch baseball and cricket played in NYC and Brooklyn, eat at the many oyster bars that existed at the time, ride trolleys & the newly created EL, take a ferry across the many rivers in the City, and watch the many parades that took place in the era. I would take a camera with me everywhere.

OK, gotta confess that there is one vice I would succumb to on a (hopefully) very limited basis - and that is attend one or two rat baiting contests that were so popular in Manhattan in those days:


Kit Burns’ Rat Pit at 273 Water Street – Secrets of Manhattan (wordpress.com)
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This is a very interesting website! Thanks @oldiebutgoody !
 
Yes, 16th to 19th centuries, the discoveries, clothing, languages (the way we wrote it down) the inventions et al...

In my creative writing endeavours loads are historically centred...
 
The 1950s 'get up and go' attitude, 'making do and mend'.
Everyone was skint after WW2 and folk were crammed into houses like sardines because of the shortage of houses after the 'blitz', but family and neighbours pulled together with a great community spirit, which sadly, seems to be missing nowadays.
Pianos in the street and people dancing without the need for posh clothes, and you were well off if you had a bicycle. 😊
 
I love American History and being a former Trentonian (NJ), our city and locale was steeped in Revolutionary War history.
On Christmas Eve we would go to Washington Crossing Park and see a reenactment of the beginnings of the Battle of Trenton.
Also I have a photo somewhere of a Man who portrayed George Washington, in a horse driven carriage , who took my daughter for a ride in it.

The crossing of the Delaware River and the incredible march into Trenton, to attack the sleeping Hessians, is one of the most exciting true stories of how history is made. Washington's small Army was poorly protected from the low winter temps and many had lost shoes in the snow, and were tired ,very cold ,and hungry by the time they got to Trenton, but they FOUGHT with the belief that they could win the battle and they DID!
 
Aunt Bea said:
For me it would be life on a small family farm in the Depression years leading up to WWII.

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Like Aunt Bea, I would have liked to have lived in a Rural life at the turn of the century ; early 1900’s in central Canada

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Caring for animals and close family
Going for moon light sleigh rides

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Making things and sharing with others .
Hard work but well received

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Great comment Gary 'O- I dont know how they did it, cutting trees down for buildings and heat ,without chainsaws.I have used a tree saw on a few small trees around here, but needed to use my chainsaw on some that were bigger.

The closest elderly neighbors I had when I first moved to NY, had a big woodstove going all year round. The Wife cooked on it even though her daughter had bought her a nice electric stove, that she never used.

I cant imagine coking everything on a woodstove. But there is a way to balance the heat under different pots and pans.

One neighbor has an electric stove that looks exactly like an old fashioned woodstove and it is beautiful.
 
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
I dont know how they did it, cutting trees down for buildings and heat ,without chainsaws
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Yeah, a big tree is a workout
Been on the end of a two man crosscut saw
and several buck saws
Not my cup of tea
Widow of Vietnam Vet said:
I cant imagine coking everything on a woodstove. But there is a way to balance the heat under different pots and pans.
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Yeah, my lady did all the cooking on our earth stove when we lived in the mountains

However, she made bread in the BBQ
She said 'if it's got a thermostat I can bake'

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Good times
 
Well. The 1980's were good to me. The people, the wknds, my health.....life was good.
I'd like to flash back to the 1930-40s, to be able to spend time w/my mother and father.

My dad's stories and my mom's adventures w/her girlfriends.
And, to sit back and watch how they met.
 
The era I'd want to live in hasn't gotten here yet. I'm hoping the future will have fixed a lot of the issues we have today...too many to list. To me, the past is filled with incurable disease, medieval violence, no modern conveniences, and unless you were some rich entitled individual, hard times in general.
 
1950's America.

The women were women.

The men were men.

Basically the opposite of today. :D
 

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