If You Could Go Back In Time....

[AU24K]

If you could go back in time for just 24 hours, what time period and where would you go? You must be careful of changing history detrementally. i.e. preventing Lincoln's assassination, etc. You wouldn't have any money unless you worked for an hour or so, couldn't use our modern currency, But I'll allow you the priveledge of taking your metal detector!
For me, I'd go back and offer the Indians more beads and goods than the $26 worth they accepted for Manhattan and make sure it was transferred to present day to ME!

 

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[Mental Granny]

I would be real careful about my past too because even the bad stuff led me to where I am and who I am with now! But I would with detector be right behind when someone of the past (infamous past) buried a LARGE cache and when it was clear dig it up and bring it with me to the present!

 

[PBK]

I would go back to my parents' wedding day and tell them that my sister (older than I) agree: one kid's plenty!

 

[thompy]

i would go back and check out the Copper Culture Indians to see what they were like, see what the country was like around the UP of Michigan, and if they were trading with europeans at the time, 6000 to 2000 yrs ago, i would also look for gold and silver, since it wasnt as long since the glaciers had retreated.

 

[Lowbatts]

Will i need a flux capacitor ...

Yeah, if you don't want to explain the Delorean to King Theodoric and the Osteogoths.

 

[Blacksheep]

If I could go back, it would be to a time I could have a conversation with my paternal grandfather. He had
extensive collections of American Indian artifacts, coins, guns and many other items. My father and uncle
had these collections and placed little value on them, never displayed nor discussed , not even any stories
about how or where he came across those collections. (I get bits and pieces of info from other family members)

One story, told by an older cousin, is of my grandfather walking behind his father as he plowed fields with a
horse drawn plow, picking up arrowheads etc in the freshly made furrows. I would give almost anything to have
one conversation with him. (He died over 40 years ago, when I was two)

 

[Monty]

I suppose I'd go back and talk with my grandad. He knew a million stories about him and his little brother Troy. They had some adventures around the turn of the century when they were young men. And if I didn't go back too far I could ask my Dad about the war he was in WWII. He never talked about it much unless we were in Prue, Oklahoma visiting one of his war buddies who went through it with him. We use to go there every Thanksgiving and go quail hunting and have quail for Thanksgiving dinner and I would sit up late at night and listen to Dad and Buck talk about the war. I was about 5 years old then and Dad would let me tag along. I have written a couple of mostly true short stories about Prue, Oklahoma and my Granddad and Mom who grew up there. Someday I will try to get them published. Right now some of the people are still alive, and it's just for family. Monty

 

[Unicorn]

Are we allowed to bring something back. Would defeat the object I suppose if we could take a metal detector and not bring anything back.
If we couldn't bring anything back, I would like to know how and why they built "Stonehenge"

 

[Lowbatts]

Are we allowed to bring something back. Would defeat the object I suppose if we could take a metal detector and not bring anything back.
If we couldn't bring anything back, I would like to know how and why they built "Stonehenge"

Yikes!
Stay off the altar!

 

[savant365]

I guess I am just greedy and materialistic. I would only go a few days back and all I would take is the last set of winning lottery numbers and a dollar bill. After that time wouldn't matter all that much.

 

[Bridge End Farm]

Are we allowed to bring something back. Would defeat the object I suppose if we could take a metal detector and not bring anything back.
If we couldn't bring anything back, I would like to know how and why they built "Stonehenge"

Yikes!
Stay off the altar!

lol

 

[warsawdaddy]

1953 - and you don't need to know why.

 

[Bridge End Farm]

tough question I would got back to when one of theses amazing cache legends is being buried so I could retrieve it in present time. Taking the value and wealth to feed our poor

 

[Monty]

Ron, given your age in 1953, I'll bet I can guess but won't! Monty

 

[Mighty AP]

I suppose I'd go back and talk with my grandad. He knew a million stories about him and his little brother Troy. They had some adventures around the turn of the century when they were young men. And if I didn't go back too far I could ask my Dad about the war he was in WWII. He never talked about it much unless we were in Prue, Oklahoma visiting one of his war buddies who went through it with him. We use to go there every Thanksgiving and go quail hunting and have quail for Thanksgiving dinner and I would sit up late at night and listen to Dad and Buck talk about the war. I was about 5 years old then and Dad would let me tag along. I have written a couple of mostly true short stories about Prue, Oklahoma and my Granddad and Mom who grew up there. Someday I will try to get them published. Right now some of the people are still alive, and it's just for family. Monty

Id pay to read those stories Monty!

Im not materialistic or greedy, dont want to go back & hit the lottery etc. Id love to go back & spend time with a tribe of Plains Indians after the arival of horses & before the arival of the whiteman. Hunting buffalo, feasting on the meat, dancing round the fire! Lil' bit of heaven right there~

 

[Bassfish]

I'd go back 5 minutes and skip this thread. LOL Kidding.......................

 

[smurf-42]

If I could go back in time, I would go back to August 31, 1981. That was the day I lost my best friend, my dad.

Sue

 

[ashleen]

I think I would have liked to see The Sermon on the Mount live

and me,... being me,... would probably bring back an autograph :P

 

[markmopar]

1985 and undo the thing that derailed several lives, at least one of which never really got back on track.

 

[nhbenz]

Did Ali really throw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River?