15 members attended an interesting meeting on the topic of time travel.
We had topics from many previous centuries including possible future ones.
Lorna tackled her experience of contrasting Italian and French celebrations when their national teams won a major football trophy, whilst John H took us back to 1692 when the Glencoe massacre took place, but managed to find there was still remnants of human kindness.
Jackie took us forward to a scary future where Elon Musk ruled the world; younger members of the population were settling in a Mars colony created by Spacex. However the older population who struggled with the new concepts were disposed of by the invitation to travel back to a decade of their choice. This offer however was a major con which created the opportunity for Musk to dispose of those people who only look back.
Joyce wanted us to remember the trams that finally stopped running In the 60s with the last run heading to the depot at Pollokshields. The people lined the streets with streamers and flags. We were reminded of how popular they were except by male conductors who hated having woman drivers during the war years.
Morag offered two contrasting journalist stories on the death of Boudica and her battles with the Romans. One side demonstrated Roman brutality, but the other cast Boudica and her followers as terrorists causing death and mayhem to the Roman ranks.
Sandra R gave us a different insight into the assassination of JFK In Dallas In 1963 through a 26 second video taken by a man called Abraham Zapruder. He died In the same hospital as Oswald, Ruby and Kennedy but subsequently the state paid 16 million dollars to his family to own and preserve the video.
Irene wanted to remind us of how people In our local area were affected by the first world war and took us to the Battle of George Square, Glasgow where history was unclear whether the 20-25,000 men who gathered there just wanted to seek change that would create jobs for men back from the war or was part of a revolution similar to one’s taking place elsewhere due to civil unrest.
John took us to the world of the Reverend Robert Kirk who In the 17th century wrote a treatise on fairy folklore, The Secret Commonwealth but died before it was published. Legends arose after his death saying he had been taken away for revealing the Elves secrets.
Brian, who loves his props, gave us the world of Davy Crockett and the Battle of the Alamo through a magical pocket watch that allowed its owner to travel back In time. Surprisingly a lot of British people joined Crockett to support Texas' bid for independence including a John McGregor from Aberfeldy.
In response to last week's exercise Elizabeth gave us an interesting rework of Goldilocks and the three bears where Goldilocks was a rebellious child and her father wrote the story to help his daughter learn from it.
Jackie and Joan read out their entries to Greenock Writers and the critiques received. Joan’s was a humorous tale called ‘The Visitor' where a highland calf called Jess got into a top floor apartment of a high flat. Jackie's was called Nobody's Trophy about a coercive relationship between an older man and a younger woman which Greenock gave 3rd place to.
In relation to a possible future venue for group meetings it was confirmed we would stop earlier on the 29 October to enable a visit to the upstairs of Erskine Sports Centre.
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