Date: 1/4/2011 1:11:00 AM
From Authorid: 48250
That is awesome Snookums, I am a major history buff myself, & am interested in family geneology, ancestry etc....those buttercups sound beautiful, too. We are spoiled aren't we? living as we do, yet it seems we take these things lightly or for granted maybe? You know even though these times are hard right now we're living in, we have love & our men & women in the military are fighting to keep our country free.....this liberty is not free, & yet we are free to choose how we wish to live---I have much respect for our veterans-----the pioneers who forged our country were awesome people without a doubt.., their indomitable spirit passed down through the generations...I think after meeting Jesus, His Disciples-----I would have liked to shake the hand of General Jonathan
"Stonewall" Jackson & General Robert E. Lee  ~ Very nice post~....T/C  |
Date: 1/4/2011 2:45:00 AM
From Authorid: 27161
a time when you can actually get a honus wagner baseball card  |
Date: 1/4/2011 7:47:00 AM
From Authorid: 23075
back to when both my parents were alive.  |
Date: 1/4/2011 1:08:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 53427
My son is a major, major, history fanatic. He is fourteen. He has autism spectrum Aspergers. So if any of you know anyone with Aspergers they usually have their subject that they are absolute geniuses in. My sons subject is history. His room is Civil War themed. He has a Union side painted blue and the Confederate gray side. He has the appropriate flags on each side, and about a dozen 8x10 pictures of all the major generals on both sides. Also Abe Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.  |
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Date: 1/4/2011 1:23:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 53427
Anyway, KY Bluebird, he recently read Stonewalls biography, and I ended up reading it too. Stonewall was a goofy professor at Westpoint before the war. His students would laugh at him in his tattered clothes and odd ways.. But then the war came, and he became this amazing general who had everyone's respect and deserved it. And Robert E. Lee, I admire him too. He had class and honor, and he showed that even when he surrendered at Appamattox. History may have proved their cause to be wrong, but they fought with dignity. |
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Date: 1/4/2011 3:11:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 53427
Oops not Westpoint. VMI. |
Date: 1/4/2011 6:31:00 PM
From Authorid: 21903
How neat about buttercups! That's my favorite flower...I've always wanted to see a whole field of them! As for traveling back, I have 2 ir three spots tied for first place to go: I would love to go back and meet/spend time with my grandfather (dads dad) I never met...id love to know what he is like and see if I have anything in common with him! Id also like to go back and spend time with my mom when she was my age...go out drinkin or whatever...just to see if we really are as much alike as I think we are! I would also like to go back and spend some time with my moms mom since she passed when I was only nine...again, id like to see if we have anything in common!
As for time periods...coloniel is prob my #1...I want to wear those kinds of dresses. Pioneer days would prob be my second or third with the victorian era. Interesting postie!   |
Date: 1/16/2011 8:59:00 PM
From Authorid: 62821
I'm a bit late replying here but this post made me think. And thus my preferred time in history to visit would be, inevitably, the Mesopotamian era, about 3000 years before Jesus. These people were the first to use writing, and theirs is called 'cuneiform' and they wrote it on clay tablets. if you look up cuneiform you'll see how beautiful the lettering is. They used to have cylindrical printing machines, for repetitive writing. They had kings and queens, paupers and carpenters and builders, and they had something to do with the use of tar. There was a flood, and the flood separated the country and if i could study history, i would study Mesopotamia. Some of the kings names: King Hammurapi, king Silath-Pileser, king Assurbanipal. It was the absolute seat of modern academia in my opinion. I was also going to say, they made beautiful statues, and had wonderful art and the mesopotamians made use of agriculture as well. Mesopotamia is now called Iraq (so maybe that would interest an american! lol)  |
