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http://www.spirit-of-the-age.co.uk/jazz_age_garden_party.htm

Oh, if only ....
I need to win the lottery right now.

Because it didn't totally fill me with longing/break my heart until this:

http://www.spirit-of-the-age.co.uk/garden_party_image_gallery1.htm

I can feel what it would be like to climb up into that, _dammit_.

Britain makes me sad; it seems to have so many more mostly lost worlds than we do.

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Well, technically, cultures have existed in the United States for well over 200 years. It's just not what we currently associate with America. But there are a lot of lost worlds here.

I realize that piping in about this seems overly PC and that's really not why it came to mind. It's more just that I've just been on a long bus tour of my state, in which the guide--a professor whose expertise is the cultural history of America, including tribal cultures--was so incredibly amazing I wish I'd known more. He had a neat way of opening our eyes to what's "old" that we never even think about--how landscapes and fauna can themselves be read as history. It was really beautiful.