Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   Marshmallows ready to roast? Didn’t you know that June is National Camping month? Gather round the campfire for a few stories then and choose your summer camp: 1) A French utopian [Nudist Colony]( 2) An [American artists colony]( (nudists also welcome) 3) A [secret society camp]( for American Presidents. 4) [The Real Moonrise Kingdom]( 5) [A hippie refugee camp circa 1969]( 6) America’s [Secret summer cabins in the sky](. 7) [A Victorian Camping Trip]( Camping not your thing? In that case, might I suggest the [Caravan Yacht](. Lastly, kick off your weekend conversation starters with: “[What would you do with this ghost town for sale?](”… Stay curious, [Nessy]   [Oh, The Fun We Could Have With This 1960s Ghost Town For Sale](  [8ca0854155fa720fa2a59d6f1ddadbc5l-m4007503529od-w1024_h768_x2]( In today’s atypical real estate news, we head to Warsaw, Missouri, where a 20-cabin pioneer style settlement, including two original 1830’s cabins, is up for grabs. The whole 20 acres plot of land with everything on it is asking $295,000. Let’s take a look around…. Located between two of Missouri’s largest lakes — Truman Reservoir…  [Continue Reading](   [That Time they Stripped the White House Down to its Bones](  [www.rarehistoricalphotos.com]( When American President Harry S. Truman took office, there were many signs that the White House needed some construction updates. The literal breaking point came in June 1948, when the leg of First Daughter Margaret Truman’s piano fell through her second-floor sitting room’s rotting floorboards into the family dining room below. What followed was a…  [Continue Reading](   [A Brief Compendium of Advertising Fans](  [fan]( Folding fans have been long associated with feminine hands and wiles, whether they were used to pass clandestine messages to a lover, be rhythmically twisted by a flamenco dancer, or simply held close to keep a church lady’s neck cool. It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to monetise the…  [Continue Reading](   [It took a Hundred Years and Two Gays to Decode Her Diaries](  [AnneListercoverart]( Anne Lister has recently crept out of the shadows of what was her own gothic novel, penned almost two centuries ago. Like all things of the neo-Gothic late 18th century, hers was also a world of shadows, veils, intrigues and most of all, it concealed her obsessional love for other women. British society was at…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCVI)](  [169165-464-5](  [Continue Reading](   [Tucked away in a Florentine Medici Villa is the World’s Rarest Citrus Collection](  [02-4]( The dynasty of the lemon has fallen from the aristocratic tree and now occupies the common ground of contemporary cuisine. Lost to us are its exotic cousins, the strange fruits of all sizes, colours and shapes with the family name Citron, not lemon. Together with olives and garlic the now humbled lemon is perhaps the…  [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.