I thought it might be interesting to see what era we would visit, if we could.

My absolute first choice would be the Civil War. I had ancestors on both sides and I would love to see it all. I don't want to actually live then because I like all of my conviences. Especially my quilting stuff and my bathroom!! My second choice would be the mid to late 1700's.

I love your question! Also love the idea of visiting rather than living there for life.

My first thought was to do the Oregon Trail, because it has fascinated me since childhood. But now that I've gotten old and lazy, I'd rather live in the late 1800s, in Philadelphia or Detroit. I love the architecture, furniture and styles of that time, am also interested in the intellectual discoveries happening then.

My other favorite era is the time of Elizabeth I of England. But I'd only want to visit if I could be minor nobility and go to court now and then.

Ancient Greece would also be a top choice of mine to visit, back when the Parthenon was still in one piece.

I would also love to visit England in the very early times. About 1200.

I don't want to go back in time. I want to bring someone forward. Wouldn't it be fun to bring a housewife from the 1800's up here to see how much things have changed?

Well, if we are just visiting, I want to go to a specific date.
December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party. Hubby and I were in a re-creation once, and it was fascinating. I would like to see the real thing.

I love English history also but boy, after reading Ken Fowletts books based on that era people were mean to each other!!!

Does the future count? Then 3010 -- Maybe I could visit the moon or even Mars...

1952 - 1958 Peace, Progress and Proper behavior, rock 'n roll, convertibles and drive-ins, and Ipana tooth powder !

I'd like to visit the 50's as a teenager. And buy a new '57 Chevy. That is my all time favorite car.

Oh what a fun thread!
I'd love to go back to 1914 - 1940's Hollywood and be right in it some how. Maybe I'd be an extra or something. I'd love to have been around Chaplin, Fairbanks, Keaton when Hollywood was just an orange orchard and you could watch silent films being made on the streets, parks and beaches, then also know Cagney, Tracy, Gable.
When I was growing up my friends were reading romance novels.....I was reading Hollywood biographies and going to silent movies on Sundays at a local college theater.
Hmm I wonder what this says about me? Why didn't I choose to go back and hear Lincoln give the Gettysburg address? Or meet Jesus? Or cross the Atlantic with Columbus? lol (could I be shallow?? :))

That is a hard question. maybe 1700

You aren't shallow, that is just the time that interests you. I guess I wouldn't mind revisiting the 50's. The slower pace would be great. Going back to my senior year of high school would be ok, too. I had a ball!!

I would love to step into Little House on the Praire time, to 'visit' for a week or so! I've been to Cades Cove (in the Smokeys) twice, and it's not been enough! lol!!!
My DH knows I just love going in the cabins there, and just sitting, imagining the people who used to live in them....
:)

Isn't Cades Cove awesome. I have been twice as well and just LOVE it. The first time we met up with a doe and her baby just walking across our path. Then later we were able to get within 10 or so feet of a buck just sitting under a tree. It was awesome. We are in SC right now so very close to the area, so I am looking forward to going again.

The late 1800s America for me! I love the thought of the frontier being open and unknown, Imagine going with Louis & Clark to the Pacific,Heading to California for the gold rush , or packing up your family and making a fresh start in the west!

I think maybe the 40's or 50's..clothes,car hops,cars..

I've been to Cades Cove four times and that is not enough either! That is such a peacful place. And one sure can imagine how the people lived. First time I was there, my sister and I encountered an old bear on our hike down to Abrams Falls. Never went hiking in the woods again.

Either the time of Jesus or the early to middle 1700s in America with the Jonathan Edwards Revival and meet my ancestors in New England. have a whole town settled by my father's side of the family. Think it'd be fun to meet them.

What you enjoy and are interested in doesn't make you shallow. There is just no duty or obligation to choose a time where you can learn or see major historic events play out.

I had thought about saying I'd like to visit the time of Moses, see the plagues, see the Red Sea part, hear him when he comes down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments... but I'm sure the reality was nothing like the Cecil B. DeMille movie. I'd still be fascinated, it's still one of my Top Ten choices, but not in the top three.

Neat question!

Hmmmmmm...given only ONE choice, I'd want to visit 1870, Chico California era and location.
I do genealogy, and some of my biggest brick walls are there!

I'll go by favorite forms of dress... lol... 1500's-1700. Colonial, Regency, Civil War, Victorian, Edwardian, 30's- the 50's.

those would be my picks!

The 1880-1886 period of time in the west. No wagon train for me however I want to be there at my ranchera. :) And to visit only as I too love bathrooms and warm showers. not to mention my microwave and gas stove .. and heater dont forget the heater that I dont have to run to and shove wood in hourly just not to freeze my tail off. I however adore the feminine clothing and how women were tough but feminine and me were manly men :)

I would like to visit both of my grandmothers when they were about twelve or so, and me the same.
We could hang out and be 'soulmates', like in Anne of Green Gables. I love them both dearly, although they have passed, and just know I would enjoy these visits immensely.
Good thing I would be young too...I couldnt squat now for chamber pots, etc., but what fun snuggling under all the quilts, and laughing until we fell asleep! :XD:

What a great idea!
I'd love to do that too.

I have a few

1. Egyptian
2. During the rein of Elizabeth I
3. Early 1900
4. 1940's

I was just thinking about this, and another time I would like to visit is about 1870. My great-grandmother, Mary Ellen, lost her first husband to the civil war. She then married my great-grandfather. Together they raised 15 children. Hers, theirs and orphans that they took in. She raised her own sheep and carded the wool and spun it into yarn. She knitted everything her family needed. She wove her own cloth and made all of their cloths, bedding,quilts, curtains, you name it. All of this on top of everything else. She paid one woman who helped with everything. But I have to wonder when this woman got any sleep. My dad said he had never heard a cross word come out of her mouth. She was tiny and quiet and lived to be 98. I would love to sit down and talk with her and find out how she managed everything. I would love to hear about her life during the war and what her dreams were. I do know that both she and my GGF were very big on education and that they sent several of their children to universities. When I think of her, I know that my life is a breeze in comparison.

I think maybe 1850's I do a little volunteer work for that time period.

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Although I've already posted, I've rethought this and would like to pick a different time. I'd like to go be able to go back to 1954 when my mom and dad first got married and then they had their first child whom they lost to SIDS. I'd like to be able to go and be a friend for my mom during this time, someone to give her hope and help and some sympathy. Just someone to be there for her as her mom was not (her words, not mine) nor were her sisters as one was too young and the other she didn't get along with. From what I've gleaned, she was mostly completely alone during this time and so I'd like to be able to be her friend during this time and maybe help her heal/grieve over the loss of her firstborn child and help her through the subsequent hard times, the many moves and the other 4 children who were born between '55 and '59.

Me too. This sounds like lots of fun. I want a pioneer lady to live with me for a month!

I would definitely go back to the 1940s. I love the way the country pulled together in war time--everyone doing their part to support the cause. I can see myself planting a victory garden, giving up my nylons, and working in a factory. It is a time in history that has always fascinated me.

You know, there was a book something like this, The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser. A present day woman and her great-grandmother (if I remember it correctly) switched places in time. I was fascinated by what the woman of the past thought of modern times.