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Steve Mc Queen
You are having an evening stroll through the park on a warm fall evening and decide to rest for a while on a bench.
Who would you like to have walk up and sit beside you for a pleasant one hour conversation? Anyone past or present.
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Other than family? (After thinking about for a while)... Robert Beebe, the naval officer and designer who wrote Voyaging Under Power. While my boat certainly diverges from his PASSAGEMAKER, I'd certainly enjoy the conversation. Others in that vein? Phil Bolger, Frank Schertzer, Bill Garden, Dynamite Payson, Weston Farmer, Billy Atkin...(grin) s/Pete
I know you said no family. You never said still living. My father. He passed away when I was a small child. I never got to know him like most people get to know their father's. Other than him, I can't think of anyone right off hand.You are having an evening stroll through the park on a warm fall evening and decide to rest for a while on a bench.
Who would you like to have walk up and sit beside you for a pleasant one hour conversation? Anyone past or present.
Family and religious figures excluded.
I know there are a lot of people who read this forum and never post - this might be a great way of making your first post and letting us know, indirectly, a little bit about yourself!
I would love to spend 60 minutes on a park overlooking the ocean, not talking with, but listening, to God. I charter to Him quite regularly. So , I would love to listen to his problems for a change. A few years ago, my wife and I were holidaying in Lima, Peru.
Our flights home got screwed up at the airport, and my wife got an earlier (12 hrs) flight ahead of me. That airport has sooo many people and sooo few chairs, I walked around till I found the chapple. Guess what. It was empty. I layed on a very long bench, spoke to God, asked ìf He would please keep my wife safe on her journey home and I fell asleep. Next morning, my wife called; were you able to get some sleep. I answered yes my dear, I spent the night with The Lord. In the chapple.
Sorry about the ramblings. One previous hr.
Years ago, I had the good fortune of having the use of a tiny Island near Sidney BC. A dream come true for a complete boat nut! But it got even better when the owner of a neighboring island rowed gently by one evening, and introduced himself as Bill Garden...also a bit of a boat nut! We became good friends over time, and through him, met Orin Edson, yet another boat nut, who also became a good friend. Both terrific, smart, funny people, who I really enjoyed spending time with, and am proud to have known. Sadly, they are both gone now, but if I had that "magic" bench, I would be one happy guy if I could sit down with both of them, and have another wonderful hour, looking out at the pass, talking about the bond we all had in common..boats of course.
Thanks so much for this thread...great memories.
In the early 70's I was in the USAF and stationed in AK. I worked at a sporting good store and ran their gun counter. Steve had come up to AK to do a guided hunt and the guide brought him into the store to get some equipment and clothing he couldn't get down in CA. Since he started the 2 hour shopping trip at the gun counter I got to help him and spent the next hour or so helping him find the equipment he was looking for.Steve Mc Queen
I think a conversation with President Lincoln would be fascinating. However, I’m not sure he would have any insight that would be relevant to those issues you mentioned.
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Ms. BB. Exactly the point I was making in my post #44. We only "know" some of these historical figures by their published reputations and history is written by the victors.
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Mr. j. "My vote for Best Answer." Perhaps, but religious figures are excluded from this thread.
Interesting answers thus far. Did anyone entertain the idea to talk with someone we didn't admire? Perhaps someone who may have been misrepresented by history?
Karl Marx? George III? Fidel Castro? Benedict Arnold?
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Mr. j. "My vote for Best Answer." Perhaps, but religious figures are excluded from this thread.
Interesting answers thus far. Did anyone entertain the idea to talk with someone we didn't admire? Perhaps someone who may have been misrepresented by history?
Karl Marx? George III? Fidel Castro? Benedict Arnold?
Easy for me, always was, always will be, Chuck Yeager!
Carl Sagan.....
Robin Williams.
I suspect it might not be much of a two way conversation, and I don't think I would ever ask why. But maybe before he got up to walk away I would have more of an insight into the person and people.
Carl Sagan.....