[Serious] Is the Past Real?

[Neo-Scholastic]

I have my memories of things past and many photos to verify people, places, and things from the past...near and far.

Not really sure about the reason for questioning the existence of the past. Without events in the past there'd be no now and no future.

Today doesn't erase yesterday. It's not an Etch-A-Sketch world.

From a presentist perspective, your photos and memories are real because they exist in the present. But in many cases the objects in them are not present and therefore not real. The question is to what do those photos and memories actually refer since the referents no longer exist?

So yes, I say etch-a-sketch world is on the table. Unless you have a reason for dismissing it. The past is story constucted from real forms in the present.