<p>I have a fascination with certain periods of time and certain places. London in the 1880’s, Venice in the Quattrocento, and Paris circa 1865.I’m like a lot of people, I tend to cherry pick specific aspects of each culture and picture myself surrounded by art and music. But if I lived in any of these time periods, I would have been dead by the time I was 27. God bless modern medicine.</p>
<p>Adored Midnight in Paris.
Yeah, when PBS was running the Pioneer show (modern families living that life,) I kept suggesting to one dau that we could do that. Then thought of mosquitos, bugs, heat, personal hygeine, bugs, heat. Did I say bugs?</p>
<p>God bless modern medicine.</p>
<p>My sister does genealogy & she has traced several lines in our family back to the 1400’s. I have been amazed at how long lived some of our ancestors were- usually men who married two or three times- but sometimes the women too. It wasn’t unusual for them to die in their 70’s or even 80’s ( after having 14 kids)</p>
<p>Must be where I got my cast iron immune system.</p>
<p>Hey, kity, I have traced so many lines and they lived, some of them, a long time. I have found some who died in their 90s out on the Maine frontier…my parents died in their 90s in California and with me here in Cyprus. I don’t think I want to live that long unless some of my aches correct themselves. I am a cancer survivor and take medicine that messes with everything. But glad to be alive!</p>
<p>Just watched Paris at Midnight this afternoon. Fabulous. My favorite in a while.</p>
<p>Looking forward, Lived like that in the 60s. Love all my memories. Would not trade for anything!</p>
<p>I watched that PBS Pioneer Series also. It looked like nothing but drudgery and deprivation. No thanks!</p>
<p>I cannot imagine living without modern dentistry, and the gender stereotypes of the sixties and seventies (when things were already beginning to loosen up somewhat) were bad enough to have lived through, I can’t imagine going back any further in time.</p>
<p>when my youngest had to do the pioneer bloc in her 3rd grade class, the dress up and do the whole chore thing and spend a day being pioneers in an old cabin. (I think lots of schools do this), she refused to wash the laundry and do the butter churner and would only tend the imaginary animals and go hunting.</p>
<p>Her teacher told her she had to do the girls chores.</p>
<p>she said, “Why? We can only pretend we are pioneers? Not what kind of pioneers?”</p>
<p>She was always a handful. ;)</p>
<p>My hobby is baseball research and I’m drawn to the 1890’s for some reason. I love reading about the growth of the sport, the wild and funloving times, and the remarkable lives many common people had. It reminds me of the 60’s I guess!</p>
<p>I don’t have a particular era (though I’ve always liked colonial-era history), but I do have a particular region of the country I feel like I “should” have been from, and that’s Boston. My only connection is now that my D is at school there. I have no relatives there, have never lived or gone to school there, have never been there for any length of time other than on vacation or on business trips, but I just have this sense of home that I can’t describe, that I don’t get anywhere else.</p>
<p>Mini, you have a point.
As for myself, I’d like to have had the opportunities my daughter has had. But I’m sure I’ll want my granddaughter (not yet even a thought in my children’s heads) to have more opportunities than that…</p>
<p>I wish I was born in 1955 (like Jobs & Gates), and pursued math as avenue to CS. I wish I had taken the scholarship from ____ and become a pioneer female in math/CS.</p>
<p>My mom and I would have been good pioneers. My H and dad would have perished long ago. </p>
<p>I’m a genealogy addict. I am lucky enough both paternal lines lived close in a rural area where the local weekly newspaper ran columns on the happenings of everyone during the week. I think they had quite a bit of time for social time and fun. Guess it depends how one defines fun, but it would work for me.</p>
<p>Don’t really like a/c and don’t mind bugs. Would miss showers, deoderant, and the internet.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl,</p>
<p>When you went to Boston what made you feel like you belonged there? </p>
<p>Take a tour sometime or read a history of the city. I grew up there and I think many people are more aware of it’s past than other cities of the same size.</p>
<p>I would like to be born now. It is amazing how far we have come since the 50’s and 60’s when I was a child. I lived in London at the time and admired everything American which meant modern to me. Now life is more global and anything is possible or so it seems, in comparison to the “olden days”.</p>
<p>Can’t complain much about 1950 onward. Missed the big war but heard first hand stories. Near total freedom as a kid to play and explore in unorganized unsupervised ways. Good by-the-book schools. No shenanigans tolerated in class, dedicated teachers, not much drama. Full enjoyment of late 60’s, 70’s and all that has come since without current detachment due to over-reliance on all electronic communications and “social” anti-social media.</p>
<p>^^We actually are fortunate to live right now in a very blessed time - after the invention of penicillin but before the oil runs out. Life is good.</p>
<p>And I’m glad to have grown up in the era I did too - the era of the Beatles and Muhammad Ali. The Viet Nam war wasn’t so great, but many of the cultural aspects of that time were great. I read the envious posts put up by kids these days on Youtube next to videos of music from our era. They are right to be envious. It was great.</p>