Can you imagine what life must have been like in 1821?

I really can't. We read books, watch documentaries, and do research about the history and the past, but none of those can truly do justice.

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NotJamieM · 46-50, M

I can't imagine no electricity and where were they as far as running water, lol?

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NotJamieM · 46-50, M

@Rose0415 it would be fun, I'm ok with people but don't mind being away from most of them. Love to hike all day and come back to a place like that.

Where is your favorite place you ever hiked?

Rose0415 · 36-40, F

@NotJamieM I think the Greenstone Ridge Trail at Isle Royale National Park here in Michigan is probably my favorite.

NotJamieM · 46-50, M

@Rose0415 I don't know anything about that one but it SOUNDS like a really cool place. I've summitted some decent mountains, but my all time favorite was hiking 12 mike's into the Grand Canyon and back out

Quetzalcoatlus · 46-50, M

Everyone smelled like shit

Rose0415 · 36-40, F

@Quetzalcoatlus They probably did, seeing as how they had no toilet paper 😆.

ThoughtGuy · 26-30, M

read a book.

Rose0415 · 36-40, F

@ThoughtGuy Reading about an event and actually experiencing it are two different things though.

ThoughtGuy · 26-30, M

@Rose0415 Well, at this point one is easier than the other.

SirBenedictTheSecond · 22-25, M

I wish I could time travel.

DownTheStreet · 51-55, M

Dial up Internet, probably

bijouxbroussard · F

No. Based upon journals people kept back then, it doesn’t sound very appealing, to be charitable. On the other hand, when my grandmother told me stories about her life in 1921, that was hard to wrap my head around, too. I tell my niece what 1968 was like, and to her it might as well have been 1821. 😅

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bijouxbroussard · F

@Rose0415 Lol. My parents were in their 20s in the 1950s and hearing them use slang from back then (“you dig it, daddio ? Look at that cat go !”) always had me cracking up—when I was a teenager in the 70s. 😂

Rose0415 · 36-40, F

@bijouxbroussard My parents were young adults back in the 80's, and I remember hearing 80's slang from them sometimes like "gag me with a spoon" 😂.

bijouxbroussard · F

@Rose0415 Sounds like they’re around my age. Cool beans. 🤭

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

Yeah I can. All there was were books, brothels and saloons.

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