Carol A. Spradling, author

CarolASpradling · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: intimate

I think I'm a throw-back to the old days. I like the time period when men and women's roles were distinct and things were not so convenient. I also like to read how characters manuevered within these restraints. Although, the pace is much more relaxed, the action and drama seems to be more personal. Without modern technology, things happened in a more face-to-face manner. In historicals, we get to visit the romance and drama of the time.
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Jeanne · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject:

I guess I am a throw back to the old days as well even though I think times were tough for people especially if you were poor. But I like to imagine different time periods without malls, skyscrapers and there was still pristine land. I always think of the song that I think Joni Mitchell wrote. The one about the parking lot. I think it goes something like this. "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got until its gone, They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot." Anyways, I always remember this part of the song but I also know that living in the "old times" could be difficult unless of course, one had money. I don't think I would like to be in Europe during the Black Death though or something like that. But if I could travel back in time, and be a ghostly figure, I would like to visit any era and see how people really did live.
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Andi · Colonist Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 256

Jeanne you really should come and see Portsmouth! I suppose I'm lucky I can go five minutes away and it would seem as if I've stepped back 200 years, there is a wood not far from her that has the oldest trees in England, they are yews, they have arrow heads from the invasion of the Normans, 1066, embedded in their trunks, I can stand in parts of Portsmouth dock yard that haven't changed that much for 200 years since Nelson set sail and walk the streets on the same cobbles he did, stand in Eleanor of Aquitaine's castle at Portchester and survey the English channel and take ten steps away and be in the21st century again! That I think is what makes me love historical's, I'm lucky enough to be able to feed my spirit of imagination as well as expand on the reality of the times? Very Happy

CarolASpradling · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject:

I am soooo jealous. The closest I have is the St. Augustine fort, Fort Matanza, and the country's first school house. So many of our historical places are ruins. Darn Sherman.
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Andi · Colonist Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 256

Darn Sherman (didn't he name tanks!!!! Laughing

) Darn English! they only built wood ones over there with you!!! Laughing

CarolASpradling · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject:

I meant a different Sherman. This Sherman burnt a path through Georgia to the ocean. He thought it would end the Civil War. He was right, but still...
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Andi · Colonist Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 256

Didn't he burn Atlanta?

CarolASpradling · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject:

Yes. That's the one.
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Jeanne · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:

Carol, I love St. Augustine's. You are lucky to live near that. I've been to the oldest school house, the Jail, and the old cemeteries. I got to walk through them before they stopped people. And I went on a ghost tour. That was pretty cool too. I went to the fort as well. Next time I'm there, if ever, I will go to the lighthouse!!! Probably on the ghost tour, lol. I still have my fountain of youth water. Well, I don't have the original one I bought because when I moved into this house I accidentally left it in a box and put it in the attic and it busted. But my friend got me a new one a while back. I keep it in the living room but the sediment has gone to the bottom. I don't think I would want to drink it but maybe in desperation as I get older, I may change my mind.

Andi, (this is the first time I have called you by your nickname) I am sitting here seething with envy. I would so love to go to Portsmouth and all those beautiful places you talk about. The castles and such. I know that probably I will never get to go anywhere again but I can always have dreams, can't I??
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Andi · Colonist Joined: 21 Apr 2008 Posts: 256

Never say 'never' Jeanne. Life has a funny way of twisting when you least expect it! Very Happy

cale · Citizen Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 134 Location: Illinois

I love to look at historic sites, and trust me the ones I saw in Italy and Greece overshadow all the ones from America. You truly realize how young America is when you go from seeing a 200 year old building, to something (or parts of it, at least) that has been around for over 2000 years. It blows your mind away. I had to be in Springfield, Illinois' state capitol last week, and I was walking around down town, and looked at capitol building and as cool and awesome as it is, it doesn't have the authenticity or genuineness that the buildings I saw in Europe had.

Jeanne · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:45 pm Post subject:

So true Cale. Anything we have here pales to what Europe has and older civilizations. I always have thought this for sure. We have this pioneer village outside of town. Boring.......I remember going to see Macho Picchu in Peru and that is even not that old. The New World isn't exactly interesting when it comes to history. Well it is interesting to a point, but I want to see old stuff.
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cale · Citizen Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 134 Location: Illinois

When I was in DC, I remember seeing all these statues, frescoes, etc. of this greek god like people, and I remember thinking "why?" Architecture around the world sometimes reflects lore, and myths, but none of this had anything to do with the States. It's still cool and worth the view, it just doesn't have as much impact, you can sense the replica-ness of it

brony1 · Citizen Joined: 11 May 2008 Posts: 159

You guys might think the US is young but not as young as New Zealand. You talk of 200 year old buildings well were not even 200 years old. New Zealand was settled by the English about the 1840s when our treaty was signed between the British Crown and the Maori people. I so cant wait for my trip up top I know my husband is gonna get sooooo sick of looking at castles Cool

cale · Citizen Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 134 Location: Illinois

How could he get sick of looking at castles? How far up into Scotland are you going Brony? You be sure to tell us all about it.