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                                             2025 UPDATE! CHICAGO ILLINOIS Follow along here on Instagram as we turn a 144 year old Chicago storefront into a place for creative endeavors, events, and quality time. THAT SUMMER FEELING Replete with historical and cultural significance, forged through passing generations, Camp Wandawega in Elkhorn, Wisconsin , still oozes a nostalgic all-American charm thanks to its current custodians... All original elements have been dutifully preserved, while any new structures added by Tereasa and David have been salvaged from neighbouring farms, treehouses and lakeside cabins. The result is an assemblage of locally sourced, recycled lodgings . Among these, one encounters the Hill House, a more contemporary lodge; the Craft Cabin, a charming 1940s shack relocated from a nearby site; and the latest addition, a gi...

the first fairy photo



 Puck is so HAPPY TO SEE A FAIRY 🧚

Elsie and the Gnome, featured in Conan Doyle’s The Coming of the Fairies (1922).

The Coming of the Fairies was published — Source 

EXCERPT: So it is perhaps not surprising that when he actually visited the Wright family in the Yorkshire village of Cottingley, Gardner found no reason to suspect there was anything amiss in the photographs. He talked to Elsie’s parents, who (not knowing themselves whether or how the photos had been faked) gave him sincere and honest answers. They told Gardner all they knew: that the two girls had borrowed Elsie’s father’s camera and gone down to a little hidden valley behind the house where the younger girl, Elsie’s cousin Frances, believed she saw fairies. The girls had returned a just short time later with the negative that Elsie’s father developed in his home darkroom: the first fairy photo.  READ: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies/

The first fairy photograph, featured in Conan Doyle’s The Coming of the Fairies (1922) — Source

 

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