I know, I left without saying goodbye.

1. Tanzlinden are trees designed for dancing in. Found across Germany, the oldest is from the 1680s. The branches envelop a platform for meeting & dancing.

This is just one of those posts that started with a single photograph which gave me such nostalgia for an era I've never actually lived through, that I proceeded to compile my own imaginary photo album of the perfect 1950s vacation– all shot in 35mm kodachrome of course.

The Années Folles in Paris — a time for jazz, literature of the Lost Generation, and a little-known fetish fashion boom. Spearheaded by a husband and wife team largely forgotten by history, Nativa Richard and her husband L. Richard, were the dynamic duo behind a groundbreaking brand called Yva Richard, and opened the world’s first known fetish boutique in Paris.

Here’s the myth: alcoholic brooding genius Jackson Pollock assesses a virgin canvas as it lays prone on the ground. Then he flings, hurls, splashes, and drips paint all over it, creating a vigorous new language of art – the drip technique. Life Magazine swooned, “Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” The real story? Pollack’s first drip painting, Full Fathom Five, was completed in 1947. Four years earlier a Ukrainian housewife with no formal art training stunned the art world with her all-over drip paintings and primitivist surreal dreamscapes.

Despite being one of America’s largest privately owned islands – from one end to the other is the equivalent of walking from Bowling Green to the Metropolitan Museum of Art – hardly anyone knows it is there. Incredibly it has been owned by one family for nearly four hundred years, protected by a Royal Charter given by King Charles I, making Gardiners Island the only place in America still held by a grant from the English Crown.

They called it the Vittel Palace, a thermal retreat in the Vosges of northeastern France, and by the looks of arriving guests, there was most definitely something in the water. 

Somewhere in between a business card and a message in a bottle, here’s a concept to boggle the millennial’s mind. Long before we were friend requesting on Facebook, following influencers on Instagram and instantly communicating with strangers around the world by simply typing in their social media handles – there was the radio calling card… aka the QSL card.

The Amish, like everyone else (or perhaps more than everyone else) deserve to get away from it all and put their feet up every once in a while. So where is a devout Christian who maintains minimal interaction with the modern world to vacation? Florida of course! That is, Pinecraft, Florida.

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