The Pecan Park Eagle

Here's your vehicle. Where do you want to go?

Remember that 1960 movie, “The Time Machine,” starring Rod Taylor and based upon the famous 1895 novel by early sci-fi writer H.G. Wells? The story basically unfolds as an early example of a theme we would see in many books and movies to come about man’s limitless capacity for greed and self-destruction. The blockbuster movie hit, “Avatar,” qualifies as the latest example of that heavy beat, but that theme has nothing to do with my interest in bringing you the time machine premise this day.

My question is simple: If you possessed the ability to travel back through time, with or without a HD DVD video camera, for a 24-hour trip to any point in American History, or your personal history, from October 12, 1492 forward, just once, where would you go?

Think a bit before you answer. The choice is yours. It could well be to a time-point in which they had no recording devices. It might be to a major event  in this nation’s history. It could be to a big moment in invention, sports, or the arts. It might even be to an event that wasn’t recognized as important at the time. Or it could be to a moment that only had importance to your personal history.

You pick it. Pick it because it’s important to you and it will be the trip of a lifetime.

Oh yeah. The usual principles of time travel prevail here. You will have no power to change anything. In fact, you will be invisible and also exempt from the usual laws of physics that govern trans-solid state mobility. Like a ghost, you, and any equipment you bring with you, will have the power to pass through walls and not be harmed by such moving objects as speeding vehicles that would ordinarily flatten and splatter other living matter. You are only there to witness, vicariously experience, record, and hopefully learn from a more direct experience with public or personal history.

The creative fun of today’s blog is now in your hands. If all or most of you readers are willing to briefly report on your choices as comments below, the sum of these ideas could be of interest to all of us. If no one responds, than I will just have to plead guilty of overestimating people’s willingness to share their positive inner wishes within the safety of this non-threatening civil forum.

I’ll  try to stay 100% out of the way. The only comments I won’t ignore are those that amount to little more than expressions of prejudicial hatred and violence toward others. Those kinds, should  they occur, will be deleted. Everything else is welcomed.

Have fun. Even if you elect not to share, I hope you enjoy and benefit from the trip you select for yourself.