Woodstock. I was only 6 and didn't really know much about it until roughly 10 years later. I know Ancient Hippy was lucky enough to be there.
If you could time travel to just one historical event, what would it be?
Dear Didge,
I think for me...it would be ancient Egypt. I would like to see the temples of Karnak and Luxor, along the Nile...when they were at their peak. The first is the temple at Karnak, bottom Luxor...I would like to see if I could figure out what made the Egyptian civilization so successful, so great for so long.
All humans have this ability to time travel.
Its really no big deal. Dreams take you forward,
memorie takes you back.
I'd probably go back to a time in rome when a bank was being robbed. Then I'd take all the money and sell it in 2017. Or I'd go and take a look at 13.8 billion years ago, film the big bang and sell it to desperate scientists.
Would have loved to be there to listen to this !
I would like to go forward in time and meet the first space aliens that land on Earth. I'm really hoping that it'll be a Klingon woman.
I'd like to meet Leonardo da Vinci, so somewhere towards the end of his era. I'd also like ti find out who Shakespeare really is, so maybe then as well.
Maybe the building of the sphinx so I can learn what it was about.
Oh, Didge, you just threw me a big old fat pitch right where I like 'em.
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
(And no, I didn't miss the word "historical" in your question.)
As a student of history, I understand that the realities of living in times past were often more grim than we like to fantasize. Not only that, go back too far, and my 21st century culture and language could be a hindrance to my ability to move freely, to function, or to avoid trouble. No past for me, I have books for that.
I'd prefer to go perhaps 500 years ahead -make it in the Springtime- to learn what becomes of our legacies.
Revolutionary war. Independence fight. Beating up the British. I'd fight right along my brothers.
To the beginning of "civilisation."
One event? That's a tough one. I'd go back in time to one of the medieval or early-modern Carnival events that were held in Italy and southern Europe. People at Carnival knew how to party!
I would love to see the vaudeville performances of people like Fanny Brice, Jack Benny, and Burns & Allen.
The farther back in time a black man goes, the worse things will get. I'd rather go forward in time.
