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Across the Fence:  If you could live in another time  |
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 08:10:23 AM
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I love the little House of the Prairie books and always felt that I would have made a great prairie girl or wagon train girl. As kids sometimes we would pretend we lived in "the olden days" and we would turn off all the lights and just use candles and mom would teach us how to sew, dad would teach us how to carve figures out of wood and soap and we would put a fire in the fireplace and cook dinner on it! My mom worked at Billings Farm and Museum in Woodstock Vermont and we always learned about crafting and farming and live in the 1800's. I miss those days and am thinking that my husband and I (if he goes along with it :)) need to have an "olden days" day!
SO...if you could live in another time past or future when would it be and why!
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
6418 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 08:35:25 AM
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I love the idea of having an "olden days" day. I too loved the idea of living in the late 1800 and yet, and yet i would miss a washing machine but I wouldn't miss a dryer. I do like running water and I think those were available back then but not to farm families. When my husband and I were first married we did live like that (oh the hippie days) We lived in Rebublic WA., in a cozy little cabin by a creek. Wood stove no electricity no indoor water or anything else. but when young and in love who needs any of that, BUT when winter came and it got REAL cold........
then the babies start arriving and we found our little farm.......but I do like the idea of an 'olden days'day. Thanks Julie.
Life may not be the party we hoped for...but while we are here we might as well dance! |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 08:59:57 AM
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I would live in the 1940's. I love the music, clothes, furnishings, innonence of the time, and patriotism during the war years.
Handmade purses and bath delights at www.rusticcottagecreations.com |
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lamarguerite farm
True Blue Farmgirl
649 Posts
missy
Battle Ground
Wa
USA
649 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 09:27:08 AM
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Definately could have been a homesteader!! I love reading books about thos times and I've always been driven and a hard worker. I think the victorian era would have been interesting as well.
Blessings,
Missy
If you have a dream, even if you don't feel qualified to accomplish it, just try your hardest.-Maggie Jensen
http://18happyhens.blogspot.com
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 10:04:25 AM
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I am blessed to have my gr-grandfather's diary from the 1880's. He talks alot about bartering and how all the neighbors helped each other, how one neighbor would butcher a pig and give him half and he would exchange for grain or flour or his weaving skills. They traded books among themselves and he ran the mail in the winter on his horse and sleigh, often being fed meals as he went along his route. I would love to live in these simpler times when you could trust your neighbor by his word, strangers invited you into their homes, and there was a whole lot less government interference.
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GaiasRose
True Blue Farmgirl
2552 Posts
Tasha-Rose
St. Paul
Minnesota
2552 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 11:25:20 AM
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I would say that I would either want to live as far back as the mid 1800 to late 1800's as a homesteader and as early back at the 60's as that era feeds my political activism streak...
~*~Brightest Blessings~*~
Tasha-Rose
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 11:45:17 AM
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I love the pioneer era but am enough of a creature of comfort to know that I was meant to be a Victorian at the turn of the century.
Great clothes, houses, furnishings, BATHROOMS, the suffrage movement, electricity, cars, so much innovation, discovery and progress. I would ofcourse been an atypical Victorian considered "bohemian" because I would want to do and try many things that weren't "ladylike". Think of all the victorian past times: I would have liked most of them! I would have liked to have been in one of Childe Hassam or Frank Bennet's paintings!
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Edited by - bramble on Oct 26 2006 11:46:36 AM |
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Luzy
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Luanne
Pueblo
Colorado
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 11:47:54 AM
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I've always been drawn to the early 1900's. That timeframe just seems like "home" to me. I love everything about that time period. Especially England, like Upstairs, Downstairs. I've always felt like I'm living in the wrong time. Weird Huh???
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May I always be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. |
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ArkansasLady
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
Cindy
Arkansas
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 12:53:06 PM
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wellllll I like my dishwasher and washing machine and COMPUTER too much to say earlier than now...I just should have been born with a silver spoon so I can buy the land and critters I want...hehehe
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 12:54:22 PM
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I would pick the 1930s or 1940s for sure! I have always loved everything about that era. Earlier would be okay too..but for sure a farm wife in the '40's would be first choice.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 1:13:48 PM
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Yeah it's tough to think about not having all the modern conveniences. I'm sure those days we played "olden days" those dinner dishes from cooking in the fire place went into the dishwasher or we probably used paper plates!!!! HEEEE! I do sometime feel like I was born in the wrong time. Oh well it's still un to pretend every now and again. I envy those people who work at places like williamsburg and get to "live" those roles all day long!
Jewelry, art, baskets, etc.
www.willowtreecreek.com |
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 5:11:32 PM
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The older I get the more I appreciate 100 watt bulbs. And, I do love the running water and bathroom facilities. Otherwise, the picture Di made of her great grandfather and his neighbors sounds very idyllic. We certainly have lost a lot--of innocence and trust, and freedom from government (thinking particularly of animal ID). So I vote for 1800s with electric lights and running water, I suppose!
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
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Clockwood
Farmgirl at Heart
8 Posts
Carol
Buffalo
NY
USA
8 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 6:12:49 PM
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| I vote for the late 1800's as well. Would love a more simpler time, where people bartered and traded with each other, where life wasn't taken for granted and the world wasn't so superficial. If we could only figure out a way to get everyone to reduce their footprint on the world. Find a way to use our modern conveniences with out using up all of our natural resources. Have all the luxries of today with the culture of the 1800's... |
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Photobugs
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Pamela
Post Falls
Idaho
USA
363 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 6:19:44 PM
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I am with you Julie...I wish I loved near someplace to be a re-enactor and work at Williamsburg. How fun that would be!
I flip flop around on which era is my favorite. I love aspects of many different times. Simplicity and the music (blue grass)of the 1700 and 1800's would be great...but people did not live very long. I for sure would have died several times over because of my medical history. I had a rare heart disease at age 15 and my parents were told I would not live..Ta Da...here I am. Then I got a severe strep infection when my last baby was born. Told if I had been in Mexico or some other place where meds were not available I would have died. So the medical care I have recieved in modern times has kept me going.
I also love the 1930's and 1940's. I think this is because it was not so long ago that we cannot have aspects of how they lived in our own lives. As was mentioned electricity, phones, etc. Love big band music. Also it makes me feel close to my recent ancestors to fantasize that I am in their times. My favorite apron looks like it is from the 30's or 40's.
Then there is decor from the Victorian era...can't beat it...so romantic. Even though I appreciate the primitive look...I am really more in love with the romance of the Victorians...lace, dangly, drippy fringe on things.
Anyone seen the movie "Buffalo Girls?" It is a western. Found it in the $5.50 bin at Walmart (I have found more movies in there!)...Melanie Griffith wears some great clothes in it. There are wood floors and furniture mixed with laces, and fringe. Perfect blend of homeyness and romance.
My home is really a blend of all of these times. I work very hard at making it warm and welcoming.
As for modern times...sure has made genealogy easier for me. Did it the old fashioned way for years...now we have so much at our finger tips...it is great to have technology! Plus now I can put in a DVD, watch it and live in other times when ever I want to...I can choose what time I want to be in and pretend. Silly, huh? I am getting a ice collection of DVD's.
Funny thing...I have lots of camera equipment from years of loving photography. Last night hubby and I were seeing what we need to put together for our 2 1/2 weeks of east coast history exploring. We both have digital cameras now. Mine is a spendy one, his fits in his pocket. But I have not gotten a zoom lens yet for my new camera. So we were going through the regular 35mm cameras that use film with the zooms and other lenses and they just do not cut the mustard anymore as we want to put the pics on a CD or be able to delete them. So either we drag the old camera along for the zoom or do not take any photos that need a zoom lens. I cannot bare not having the ability to take far off photos if I want to. But am trying to be careful of my funds so I can have more to spend on the trip. So getting the zoom for my new one right now is not smart. Anyway, all of my beautiful camera equipment is now old fashioned and becoming obsolete! It will be antiques someday and my grandsons will hopefully cherish it as I do my grandparents cameras. Okay I kinda got off topic here at the last...sorry...my brain can get to goin!'
When I say east coast history exploring trip I mean: Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown, Mt. Vernon, Monticello, Washington DC, Walton's Mountain (Schyler, VA), then onto Gettysburg, Lancster Co., Philadelphia, Elizabeth and Morristown, NJ (cemeteries of ancestors there). I am a little nervous about going to the city. Never done this before.
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 6:27:00 PM
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1916-1920 I think, I love dresses, my treadle is from that time period. I found a calender from the same year with a beautiful woman and baby. So romantic, but those were hard times for people you know.......... jo
"friends don't let friends eat farmed salmon"
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LauraH
True Blue Farmgirl
305 Posts
Laura
North Creek
New York
USA
305 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 6:47:53 PM
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I love the olden days, I would pick the late 1800...I have read all the little house books to both of my daughters they love the idea too! I would miss some of the conveniences of today washing machines, indoor plumbing in the dead of winter, but not alot of other things.. The roles of men & women were more defined back then.. don't you think? Everyone helped their neighbor... ah bliss... I have often felt that I was born in the wrong era...
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Photobugs
True Blue Farmgirl
363 Posts
Pamela
Post Falls
Idaho
USA
363 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 7:44:36 PM
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I wonder if you asked the women from these times if they would trade with us what they would say? They'd probably all trade in a heart beat because as you say Jo...times were very hard. I often tell my husband how grateful I am to my foremothers/fathers and they perservered to stay alive and make a good life for themselves and their families. If I could live a day in their shoes, I know I would be amazed.
Pamela
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" |
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summerbreeze
True Blue Farmgirl
277 Posts
Laura
WA
USA
277 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 7:45:27 PM
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I grew up on the Little house books. I love that time. I spent my childhood dreaming of being Laura Ingles. I was convinced I was ment to be her as we had the same first name.
I live in an area where the power goes out more than it should. Sometimes it goes out for a week at a time. I have to admit I like it for a while and then I am very happy when hubby fires up the generator.
Laura
You only live once,if you do it right once is enough. |
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ILoveBaskets14
True Blue Farmgirl
76 Posts
Stefanie
Cross Lanes
WV
USA
76 Posts |
Posted - Oct 26 2006 : 8:08:13 PM
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Pioneer Girl of course, people back then knew what a real family was and the comforts of family. Things seem like they were so much more peaceful back then, people where nice to there neighbors, went to church, took friends a pie, and they knew that was the way it was to be. I loved the Little House books as a kid. My kids and I just watched two movies of Little House made from Disney and they were great. I long for the simple life and to see the outcome of hard work.
Baskets of Blessings. |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
2099 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2006 : 1:37:53 PM
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I would love to have lived in the late 1800s. I'm fascinated by the earier colonial period, historically speaking, but the homelife of approx. 1880-1910 seems so familiar to me. It's the period of all my favorite childrens' books!
Of course, medically speaking, I would not have lived past the age of eleven back then. I had appendicitis, which my own great grandmother died from in the 1920s. I remember being sad at the time when I realized that...one of life's first lessons, I guess.
So my new wish is to have been a young adult around 1950 so that I could have been part of that back to the land/homesteading movement of the twentieth century. I think it was easier then because rural land was cheaper and health insurance was not the necessity it is today. Plus there were still plenty of people alive then who had grown up in the earlier times and had first hand knowledge to pass down.
Pamela, re: the photo equipment. I'm in somewhat the same boat as you. I have a 35 mm with a couple of lenses, and I just got a pocket digital which doesn't take nearly the same quality of photos. I had a thought recently...don't photo developing places offer you the option of having your pictures returned to you on a disc as well as in prints for a small extra charge? That might be a good way to transition. I haven't looked into it any further, so I don't know how much you can manipulate the photos from the disc, but it might work. |
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Birdcat
MaryJane's Farmboy
51 Posts
erik
51 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2006 : 2:50:43 PM
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Gee whiz, all you homesteaders would've hated me, i'd be a Shawnee and would've stolen and loved up your horses and daughters.
Or maybe old Crete (6000-8000 b.c.) before the patricarchy and the warlords hit. |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2006 : 2:59:59 PM
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OK FARMBOY, I MIGHT HAVE HAD A TRUSTY RIFFLE AND A VERY CRANKY HORSE. HA.UNLESS OF COURSE YOU COULD HAVE CHARMED ME OUT OF BOTH.
NANCY JO |
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Birdcat
MaryJane's Farmboy
51 Posts
erik
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Posted - Oct 27 2006 : 3:41:36 PM
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Yep. If my tomahawk wasn't enough i'd resort to my ukulele and youd've been horseless, barefoot and swooning for another Pow Wow.
...or maybe i'd just be dead from that rifle, i dunno. |
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2006 : 3:57:08 PM
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I changed my mind. I would still like to go back to older days of simpler lives, HOWEVER, I wish to only go back as far as the first date epidurals became used for childbirth. Seriously though, we were just reading about the conjoined twins born in Vancouver this week and got to thinking about how women must have suffered in childbirth in earlier years. Must have been just awful.
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
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westernhorse51
True Blue Farmgirl
1681 Posts
michele
farmingdale
n.j.
USA
1681 Posts |
Posted - Oct 27 2006 : 7:57:34 PM
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Kay, Im w/ you on the 40's, I love the music, clothes, hair & all of it. Even the early 50's. I also in my hippie days, lived w/out running h2o, no electricity at times & it was great at the time. Now, forget it, I want running water, fridge, lights etc. I can live w/out some things but I no longer want to.
she selects wool and flax and works with eager hands Prov.31:13 |
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Across the Fence: If you could live in another time |
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If you could live in another time
