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The Honey Hunters of the Himalayas

Monday mornings at the office won’t seem as treacherous once you see where the Gurung men of the himalayas head to work.  Hunting for honey high in the himalayas foothills, men older than most people claiming retirement risk their lives to harvest the nests of indigenous honeybees. For this incredible photostory, I’ve come back to…

Celebrity Icons and their Favourite Summer Book

So you might have heard I wrote a little book called “Don’t be a Tourist in Paris” and I was in need of some early feedback, so I sent it out to just a few of my close contacts. As you can see, it looks like they all really seem to be enjoying it! I think it’s going…

Unmasking the Parisian Phantom of the Opera

What if I told you there is a lake under the Paris Opera House, just like in The Phantom of the Opera? Down, down, down, deep underneath the Garnier Opera in a dingy room with a square-shaped hole in the middle, I found it. Resting in the hole was a ladder that seemed to be descending into…

Florida’s Tarzan Still Haunts His Old Camp

At 6’4” and 240 pounds, handsome, muscular Russian-American Vincent Natulkiewicz looked like he’d stepped out of a Tarzan movie. And like Tarzan, he lived in the jungle with his animals. Vince “Trapper” Nelson—or Tarzan of the Loxahatchee River—arrived in Hobe Sound, Florida, from New Jersey in 1930. He built a log cabin deep in the…

If Only the Decaying Walls of the Iconic Red Apple Rest Stop Could Talk

The Red Apple Rest was not just any old roadside diner. Open 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, the perfect half way stopping point between New York City and the Catskills Mountains, it became an unlikely hub of talent and a hangout for entertainers in a region that from the 1920s until the 1970s, was derogatively referred to…

When Exotic Pets were the Accessory du Jour

  “The big picture is that we are intimately bound to animals and it is satisfying to take them in and tame them. Subconsciously, we are a mishmash. We don’t know who we are, and so to simplify things, we predicate our individuality on animals.” Dr. Yi-Fu Tuan, a cultural geographer at the University of…

THE JAW DROPPING PHOTOSTORY: Oh, don’t mind our pet Lion

You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head…

Vintage Angelina Jolie Doppelganger tries to sell you Bathroom Gadgets

I‘ll be the first one to admit there isn’t much to this post besides a lovely but forgotten starlet I found buried in the LIFE archives with a striking resemblance to Angelina Jolie, peddling some pretty bizarre bathroom gadgets in the 1950s. But boy, what I wouldn’t give to know her name and track down her story……

Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone. Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives…
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