Annapolis Home March April 2013

Annapol i s HOME Serving Maryland • Vol. 4 No. 2 2013

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FEATURES The Geography of Design Patrick Sutton’s travels inspire his interiors.

A Classical Barn Dedicated to the Sports Life A traditional Maryland barn hides a pro-basketball court.

Flowering Bulbs

Horticulturist Molly Ridout muses about her favorite perennial blooms.

DEPARTMENTS

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Pleasures Inspired by the Sea

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Cover photograph: Patrick Sutton Interior Photography by Gordon Beall

CONTENTS

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Mission: Makeover A nautical villa emerges from a riverside split-level home.

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Editor Kymberly B. Taylor Creative Director Ryan Gladhill Senior Designer Samantha Gladhill

Publishers’ Letter

Contributing Photographers Geoffrey Hodgdon Christine Fillat

Welcome to the Imagine issue. Spring is a time of great energy—ducklings burst through their eggs, tulips crack open the earth and rise, giant cod leap and spawn in our creeks. In our pages, we bring you projects and careers charged with a similar magic and ingenuity. Mission: Makeover traces the transformation of a creek side splitlevel home into a sun-drenched nautical villa.

Architectural Columnist Chip Bohl Contributing Writers Jerri Anne Hopkins Christine Fillat Mollie Ridout Gay Jervey

We learn in A Classical Barn Dedicated to the Sports Life how a top architect and builder team up to dream up a building that is a traditional horse barn on the outside and a basketball court on the inside.

In a new series called Portfolio, Annapolis Home will look at the career of a designer, architect, builder, or artist who has played a significant role in shaping the spaces and lives of people in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region. We inaugurate this occasional series by focusing on the magical work of award-winning Baltimore-based architect and interior designer Patrick Sutton, who has done work all over the country, including Annapolis.

Copyeditor Katie Pierce Marketing Consultants Jessica White Martin Evans Publishers Kymberly B. Taylor Robert E. Haywood

Read on and find out about the miraculous lives of flowering bulbs and how to bake real French macarons, a cloud-like creation filled with cream.

Also, in this issue we announce the Landscape Architecture Tour, which Annapolis Home Magazine is coordinating with landscape professionals and landscape architects for May 2014. Approximately twelve projects will be selected for the Tour, the first of its kind in Annapolis, with proceeds dedicated to The Light House shelter. Stay tuned for guidelines and information in subsequent issues.

We hope you enjoy Imagine and gain some inspiration while you're at it.

Until next time,

Kymberly Taylor & Robert Haywood Publishers kymberly@annapolishomemag.com robert@annapolishomemag.com

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Annapolis Home Magazine is coordinating the Landscape Architecture Tour with landscape architects for May 2014. Approximately twelve projects will be selected for the Tour, the first of its kind in Annapolis, with proceeds dedicated to The Light House shelter.

If you are a registered and practicing landscape architect or employ one on your staff, please contact us for more information at kymberly@annapolishomemag.com. Put Landscape Architecture in the subject line.

Projects must be in and around Annapolis.

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Annapolis Film Festival, movie still from Musicwood, Annapolitan producer, Josh Granger

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Debuting with much anticipation, the Annapolis Film Festival will screen more than 90 films from March 21st to 24th. The films, features and shorts, narratives and documentaries, will be shown at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, St. John’s College, Banneker-Douglass Museum, St. Anne’s Church, and Bay Theatre from 7 pm on Thursday night to 8 pm on Sunday night.

Maryland Hall will host its 8th annual All That Art auction fundraising event on Friday, March 22nd from 6–9 pm in the Maryland Hall galleries. The fundraising event includes an exhibition of more than 40 pieces of art in all genres and an elegant reception with a live and silent auction of art. For more information, including tickets, go to www.marylandhall.org.

The Festival opens with the mid-Atlantic premiere of the newly released feature film Ginger & Rosa, the story of two inseparable friends growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms. An Opening Night After Party follows the film at Maryland Hall.

The Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College is hosting a fascinating exhibition, Envisioning the World: The First Printed Maps 1472–1700, from March 1st–April 13th. The show explores how the quest for commercial and military dominance in the 15th through 18th centuries challenged the Copernican and theological treatises of cartography. To learn more, go to www.stjohnscollege.edu.

To purchase tickets, to find the detailed schedule, or to learn more about the films and who is scheduled to appear, please visit the website at www.annapolisfilmfestival.net.

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Fashion for a Cause is among the most fun and entertaining charitable events around. This stylish fashion show, hosted

by Hospice Hundred of Hospice of the Chesapeake, takes place in the cool space of Porsche of Annapolis on Hudson Street.

This important benefit, which supports children living with illness or those coping with a family illness, will take place on Thursday, May 9th from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. Annapolis Home is proud to be among the sponsors of the event this year. For contact and ticket information, go to www.hospicechesapeake.org.

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Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's classic novel Pride & Prejudice at a tea at the Hammond-Harwood House on Saturday, May 11th. You need a reservation so call 410-263-4683, ext.12. For more information, go to www.hammondharwoodhouse.org.

Robert Haywood, Ph.D., studied art and architectural history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has taught at MIT and Johns Hopkins University and has been a residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

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Portfolio

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as a child, Patrick Sutton traveled the world with his famous father.

now his interiors are visual journeys.

A Patrick Sutton interior is likely to take you to a place you have never been before, and, depending on where you have traveled, to reveal facets of a particular locale or incite memories of a distant place. His interiors are geographic in that they often evoke regional textures, colors, forms, and light. Like a trip abroad, his environments are designed to enrich the senses, but at the same time they are conceived for human traffic and comfort.

Sutton choreographs spaces that evoke a physical place. He often achieves this by knocking down walls, raising ceilings, or removing or replacing windows and doors. With training at Carnegie Mellon University in architecture, Sutton has the skill and eye for composing whole spaces, with one room or space flowing effortlessly into another. After practicing architecture for many years, first with the large firm RTKL and then with his own architecture firm, Sutton discovered that he was not only concerned about structural forms but also with what takes place in a space. Where and how will people dine, where will they sit for relaxed conversation, where will a family gather, how will they live?

While Sutton's training and practice in architecture taught him about the tectonics of form, his world travels have given him a sensitivity to the richness of color, texture, pattern, and design, as well as distinct geographical terrain. Sutton's father, Horace Sutton, was a famed and prolific travel writer, who was the editorial director for the Saturday Review and had a syndicated travel column in over a hundred papers. He also authored the Footloose series, including "Footloose in France" (1948). During the peak of his career in the mid twentieth century, Horace Sutton traveled at least 100,000 miles a year, far more Modern architecture by Patrick Sutton than the average American at this time. Unlike Opposite: Pazo Restaurant in most school-age children, Patrick Sutton, who Baltimore was once a tool factory attended school in New York, traveled the world with his father and mother, a fashion model. in 1880. Patrick Sutton managed to inject a Mediterranian sensibility into the interior, while preserving its industrial roots.

As a young boy, Patrick roamed exotic places such as the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy. He describes it vividly, recalling, “its grand interiors halls, classically detail rooms adorned in rich fabrics, walled terrace gardens punctuated by ancient columnar trees and manicured lawns and a majestic lake dotted with romantic villas.” These early travels gave him an immense memory bank of interior and architectural forms from which he draws inspiration for his own designs.

Sutton’s travels informed his design of the Baltimore-based Pazo restaurant, which he describes as a watershed moment for him. Like many large urban areas, Baltimore is a city where desperation and grandeur co-exist. Its working class roots are captured in a 1880s tool factory in Harbor East. In 2005, when restaurateur Tony Foreman and chef Cindy Wolf opened Pazo in the space, Sutton preserved its industrial feel, while infusing it with a Mediterranean aura, which reflects the owner's food concept.

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In this Greenspring Valley bedroom, a disciplined earth-toned palette frees the imagination to roam beyond walls.

Opposite: Whites vary in shade, subtly defining the living room in this Greenspring Valley home.

In creating Pazo, Foreman and Sutton traveled throughout Spain and Italy exploring the food, architecture, and landscape. Pazo’s Mediterranean character is captured in the large pottery vessels that preside in the bar area, as well as in the earth toned walls and furnishing that contrast with rich red shades suspended over the bar. As evident in Pazo, Sutton's interiors have a decidedly masculine component. Sutton uses a lot of earth tones, shades of beige and browns, and objects such as large muscular vessels, and very little, if any, frill and lace.

Sutton's design, including the romantic lighting, takes a guest elsewhere, fulfilling Sutton's conception of dining out not just as providing food for survival, but as a "two-hour vacation," a brief journey beyond the routine and workhorse demands of everyday life. From Pazo, which opened with an enthusiastic public response, Sutton realized more than ever how design can bring "joy to people," "elevate the spirit," and generate "civic pride."

Indeed, Sutton's work on Pazo increased his belief that good design

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can greatly enrich human life, and this concept translates into his work on private homes. In 2011, Sutton completed a whole house interior for a homeowner in Greenspring Valley, MD. The kitchen design is brilliantly colored, with the turquoise of the cabinets picked up in the decorative Mexican-flavored tile over the range.

The turquoise tones are coordinated with the earth tones of the window treatments and fabric shade, as well as in the dark rosecolored chairs. As with Pazo, this kitchen is both elegant and casual.

The garden room is designed to incite all the senses. With its multiple double doors, faux pressed metal ceiling of bronze patina, stone floor, wall candle sconces, gothic light fixtures, and pottery vessels, all coupled with the tall fig trees, and planters, the space evokes a light-filled room located in a tropical paradise. The room is actually the lower level of a home in Baltimore County.

Sutton's preoccupation with geography is also evident in a waterfront interior he designed in Easton, MD. With the Easton guest room, Sutton conceived the space not so much to transport

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The living room in this Easton home pays homage to the Eastern Shore's sand-toned geographical palette.

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you to a Mediterranean or tropical paradise, but rather to echo the specific character and culture of the Eastern Shore. Sutton explains that his residential work reflects his concern with the "guardian spirit of a place."

Unlike his restaurant projects, he says that the goal of his home designs is less about taking a homeowner on a faraway journey and more about revealing “the essence of where they are in the best possible light." He says that this is “why my projects all look so different; they are geared to the locale and the people who inhabit them."

For the home in Easton, Sutton highlighted the Eastern Shore culture by selecting many of the furnishings from area antique and salvage stores.

As with every Sutton interior, the accessories are critical, including, as in this room, the wooden box placed on the floor, just at the bed's bottom edge.

Suspended from the vaulted ceiling made of wooded slabs and painted gray is a canvas wrapped boat with its oars displayed above the bed. The room, with its wall of windows and glass-

paneled door, takes advantage of and accentuates the light and outdoors.

While his father's literary accounts transport a reader to foreign lands, Sutton similarly creates visual journeys.

These journeys may hint at some far away place or dramatize local character and culture. Rather than words carefully crafted into paragraphs, Sutton uses architectural structures, color, textures, and furnishings to stir the imagination and take the person—rather than the reader—to another place. And most often that place is home.

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Above: A bedroom in this Easton home references the joys of canoeing and tooling around in small boats.

Opposite: The living room in this Easton home pays homage to the Eastern Shore's sand-toned geographical palette.

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"As you enter, the house embraces you with light and gentle color and a cheerful spaciousness..."

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rom creek level, on a sunny winter’s day, the house looks imposing, almost forbidding, perched on the high bank above a narrowly terraced block retaining wall, without summertime’s softening effect of flowers and greenery. But this is a false impression. As you enter, the house embraces you with light and gentle color and a cheerful spaciousness, as warm and inviting as the homeowners themselves.

For a number of years, the homeowners, a Navy man and his first mate for life, had kept a sailboat farther down the creek and gradually grew to be fond of the surrounding community.

When the property, with its original house, became available, they purchased it for a weekend and vacation home. Because it was so convenient to their main residence in a Virginia suburb, as well as provided convenient sailing to the Magothy River and the Chesapeake Bay, the couple, along with family and friends, spent a lot of happy times in the small blue home they affectionately referred to as the “Smurf ” house.

As the time for retirement drew close, the homeowners decided to make the “Smurf ” house their main home and set about finding a design that suited them. They found a Sater Design Collection plan called Savannah House (now called Wulfert Point) that gave them a great base from which to start. Teresa Todd, an Annapolis architect, worked closely with them, adapting the house plan to their specific needs and desires. The new house is constructed over the basement and partial footprint of the old house.

Several factors contributed to the home’s design and construction.

First, the couple wanted to maximize the lot’s waterfront views where the light and the breezes that blow up and down the creek make sparking ripples at almost any time of day. The first mate calls the ripples her “diamonds” and relishes watching them dance along the creek surface.

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Second, because the couple frequently entertain family, especially their four grandsons and their many friends, they wanted an open concept wherever possible to enhance the ebb and flow of guests throughout the house.

Third, health issues, although happily overcome, made them conscious of living in a home that is easy to move around and work in for someone with limited mobility.

Other factors were getting the most out of the shape of the lot, which is fairly long and narrow, and being environmentally conscious and energy efficient. They had wanted to use a biofriendly system to repair the eroding front bank, but finally had to fall back on the retaining wall to meet county requirements.

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When it came to choosing a builder, the homeowners took a very smart approach by interviewing several builders and visiting their construction sites to see for themselves how the builders and their crews worked. Ultimately, they chose Lauer Construction to build their new home. The first mate notes, “It was an amazing lesson to find that some builders merely knew how to hammer but not put things together in a substantial way, let alone with accuracy in even the simplest of structures! Seeing for myself what a Lauerbuilt home was like with just the ‘guts’ convinced me we would have a solidly built home that would last no matter how [it was] subjected to storms and winds.”

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John Lauer, founder and president of Lauer Construction, prides himself on his company’s solid work performance, attention to detail, and hands-on attitude. While he assigned a well-qualified project manager and an experienced chief carpenter to the project, he had many meetings with the homeowners as things progressed to make sure everything went well and that any changes or problems were dealt with efficiently. When asked if there were any special challenges with the house, Lauer noted, “There weren’t any real problems with the house. Unfortunately, the biggest challenge

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in our business is dealing with Anne Arundel County and their constantly changing code requirements." On the other hand, he said the best things about the project were working with the architect Teresa Todd “who does a great job” and especially the homeowners. “It was truly enjoyable. They were knowledgeable and always available. They are such caring and nice people.” The finished house, now dubbed the “River House,” reflects the care, skill, and fine workmanship that went into it.

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From the landside, which is functionally the back of the house, you enter an elegant entryway and face a curving staircase to the second floor. Slightly to the left a long hallway leads to the front of the house. To the right is a formal living room with windows looking out to the backyard. To the left is the door to the elevator flanked on the right by a large niche highlighting a colorful tapestry from South America. The foyer leads left to the indoor swimming pool, a favorite with the grandsons, to a door leading to the garage, and to a laundry and mudroom area. Just outside the mudroom is a small covered porch with an outside shower perfect for washing the family dog’s paws as well as muddy grandsons.

The front of the house can be reached by the hallway, which is lined by a wall of large windows and a patio door, or through the formal living room by two smaller passages, one through the pantry and one running between the bar area and the

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downstairs bathroom.

In the front of the house, the outside wall is entirely lined with large windows and another patio door, giving a magnificent view of the creek and the sparking “diamonds.” Here, the homeowners chose Loewen windows because of their quality, energy efficiency, sturdiness, and noise reduction capability, the by-product of well fitted and sealed windows and doors.

The whole area is an open space, with kitchen, dining, and living areas delineated by columns and half-walls. The kitchen is far right, extending into the pantry passage and with a small but well-equipped island separating it from the dining area. Everything is arranged for efficient use of space and storage, as it would be in a well-appointed galley.

Indeed the whole house has a distinctly nautical feel. The color palette is light blues and blue-grays on a soft white background,

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with “pops” of red and yellows. Nautical prints and interesting objects and art brought home from the couple's travels abound without being too overwhelming. A rounded balcony across the front of the house resembles the bow of a ship, ready to thrust into the creek and set off voyaging.

The hallway from the main entrance continues up the side of the main living area and around the front of the house. Another half-wall curves elegantly around to separate the main living area from the front wall of the house. In the middle, a large column contains an open-sided gas fireplace. Comfortable pale beige sofas accented with colorful pillows flank the fireplace. With bright sunlight streaming in, the whole front half of the house cheerfully welcomes guests to come in, sit, and stay a while.

On the second floor, the staircase opens to a windowlined hallway leading to the master suite at the front of the house. A second two-sided gas fireplace takes center stage in the middle of the master bedroom, flanked by two small desks used as the homeowners’ offices. The bed itself is flanked by built-in shelves and commands an even better view of the creek.

The back of the hallway passes the elevator door to a small foyer lined with cupboards and to the grandsons’ suite. The bedroom holds three beds cunningly shaped like small boats, with storage in the bows and underneath, although one of the beds has a trundle underneath. A strong nautical theme continues into the small bathroom, with strong blues, reds, and bright white.

Of the completed design and construction, the homeowners note, “Between the architect, Teresa Todd, and Lauer and his craftsmen, they brought a dream to reality. This truly, for us, is an unpretentious River House perfect for hosting family and friends. From our bed tracing the moon in the skies, reflected in the water and bounced up to ripple across the ceiling, to waking to a sunrise above the tree line and watching sparkling diamonds dance on the water and also play on the ceiling, we cannot believe our good fortune in living on the water and enjoying the beauty of nature.”

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A Classical Maryland Barn Reinvented for the Sports Life

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With its simple lines and graceful composition and with its traditional joinery and design, this classical Maryland barn recalls the family-run horse farms of centuries past. Today, this 4,000 square foot barn does not shelter horses but a basketball court, racquetball court, and more. The homeowners, who live in Washington, D.C., built the sports barn in 2008 to complement their home on the Chesapeake Bay. The family wanted to have a space to play basketball together, entertain friends, and retreat from the world of politics.

Architect Scarlett Breeding, of Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects in Annapolis, and George Fritz, COO of the Crofton-based Horizon builders, teamed up with a homeowner with a desire for a basketball court and a building big enough to hold it. The homeowner, a White House executive, did not want a giant commercial building to scar the pastoral landscape so suggested a “sports barn.” Breeding and her team came up with a plan to design a building that looks like a traditional barn on the outside but inside is a fully functioning private modern sports arena. “It was an appropriate architectural form for this area with houses

that are set back and have outbuildings. It is sympathetic to the land in and around Annapolis,” says Breeding.

Breeding’s team researched barns indigenous to Maryland and recreated a structure true to the form and proportions of early barns. Breeding points out traditional elements, such as the shed roof where tractors would be stored, wide doors for herding livestock, a hayloft for storage, and a post and beam exposed pine wood frame sheltering a floor big enough to care for livestock, dry tobacco, or thresh grains such as barley and wheat. What is fun and interesting about this project, she says, is that almost everything has been repurposed for contemporary use. For example, the shed roof and lean-to provide shade and a place to observe the tennis court. The hayloft is transformed to an office and observation deck. Wide doors open to a court large enough to shoot hoops rather than separate wheat from chaff.

Fritz’s task was to ensure the building was structurally sound yet retained the beauty and character of an authentic barn. To keep the project affordable and make use of modern energy efficient

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materials, he suggested using structured insulated panels, or SIPs. SIPs are a composite made of an insulating layer of polymer foam sandwiched between two layers of structural board. These prefabricated panels can apparently withstand severe weather, including tornados, hurricanes, and earthquakes.

Because the panels are prefabricated, building takes less time and saves on labor costs, explains Fritz. However, the barn’s interior detailing and execution required precision and skill. Building soaring ceilings supported by exposed posts and beams is an

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unforgiving enterprise and not for the inexperienced builder. You must get things right the first time and work swiftly. “Installing is all crane work, you have to know exactly where you want each item to be. The crane holds the wood up and we have scaffolding because we have to build one truss and then another. A heavy wind could make it all blow over,” he says.

Fritz, who has worked previously with the client, says the job was completed in about five months. He believes it went smoothly because of the trust and good rapport he developed with his

client over time. “A good rapport is all part of the process when you do truly custom work,” he explains. “The builder needs to understand how visions can differ between all involved, between the builder and homeowner, the homeowners themselves, and the architects. Some people think they know what they want.

They don’t really know that they don’t know,” says Fritz. This is common and understandable. “You are taking something that is 2-D to them and turning it into 3-D,” he says. To avoid or at least minimize the gap between fantasy and reality, and to manage expectations, he builds several mock-ups and escorts

clients to various venues to choose different types of doors, molding, and materials.

Breeding believes, as does Fritz and the family, that the team has achieved its goal: “If we didn’t have the court and everything striped on it, you could say you were inside of a timber frame barn, it is the two together that creates the interesting mix.”

Indeed, a mix has been achieved, in more ways than one. This barn is perhaps emblematic of a twenty-first-century modern barn, whose construction with improved, energy efficient

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materials is yet another link in a continuing chain of traditional barn building techniques.

The earliest barns were made from logs, susceptible to rot and erosion. As prosperity increased for the farmer, barn construction changed to incorporate brick and river stone. Immigrants introduced foreign building techniques that were incorporated into traditional practices in the same way that energy efficient materials and new building methods today jostle for acceptance. The sports barn, just like its centuries-old predecessor, is a sturdy structure where function still drives form. And, it has progressed, you could say, to accommodate the lifestyle of an active commuting couple with lots of two-legged short creatures that, like horses, love to eat and run: kids.

Resources: Architect: Alt Breeding Schwarz Architects, www.absarchitects.com Builder: Horizon Builders, www.horizonbuildersinc.net

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Flowering Bulbs

By Mollie Ridout

They are the true harbingers of spring, a bed of sunny daffodils or bright red tulips. Blue skies and warm breezes tease us one day and are gone the next, but those flowers in their eye-catching primary colors tell us that winter is really over. For months they have nestled in their earthen beds, the embryonic leaves and flower buds protected by fleshy scales that provide the plant with enough food for a whole growing season.

That is the real miracle of flowering bulbs, how they evolved this survival mechanism to weather the dry, hot conditions of their native central Asia so that spring rains can now unleash their potential, bring forth a flower, and spur enough growth to replenish the bulb for another year. The flowers themselves, resplendent in a rainbow of colors, have caught the imagination of poets and gardeners for thousands of years. Tulips first made their way from the courts of the Ottoman Empire through Constantinople to Venice and then the Netherlands at the end of the sixteenth century. Their exotic shape and variegated colors caught fire in the imagination of gardeners and businessmen alike. Within a few short decades rare “broken� tulips, their petals shot through with flames of color, were selling by the bulb for the same price as elegant homes along the canals of Amsterdam. All too soon the artificial bubble burst and fortunes were lost. Fortunately, plants endure even if economies don’t. Today the Netherlands produces nine billion bulbs a year and anyone can take a few of them home, to plant a bit of color, geography, and history in their own backyard.

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The Annapolis Book Festival is a significant cultural event in our area. Open to the public, the Festival hosts major authors, panel discussions on worldly topics, and performance events for people of all ages. Dawn Madak, the Festival co-chair, says that she envisions the festival as "ideas coming to life in unexpected ways."

Meet Marcella Yedid, Head of School, The Key School In anticipation of the Festival, we talked to Marcella Yedid, head of The Key School, and asked her about the Festival's history and mission. Ms. Yedid, who was born in Thessaloniki Greece, has been the Head of The Key School since July 1999. She holds a B.S. in Music and Languages from Indiana University and a M.A. in French and Italian from Brown University.

1. How did the Annapolis Book Festival begin and what is its mission?

Begun eleven years ago, the Annapolis Book Festival has shown its capacity for endurance. And, why not? It has answered two fundamental requisites for the school benefit that was

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Marcella Yedid, Head of the Key School (center), Dawn Madak (left) and Mischelle Wilbricht (right), Annapolis Book Festival co-chairs.

being re-invented in early 2000 by a group of imaginative Key School volunteers—desirable outreach for the school as well as support for its endowment. As a school committed to inquiry and linked to a strong literary tradition for its students, we wanted to promote a community gathering whose focus would be on the celebration of the written word, fueled by the presence of inspiring authors engaged in intellectually stimulating exchanges with a curious audience. Principals within that early organizational structure were Missy Attridge, Joann Vaughan, and countless other skilled volunteers, intent on bringing forth on the Key School campus appealing fare for this region’s avid readers. This year’s co-chairs are Key parents Dawn Madak and Mischelle Wilbricht who are carrying on the long ABF tradition with flair and creativity.

2. What type of audience is the Festival designed to attract?

From the start, attracting a diverse audience in interests and in age has been a top objective: diverse in interests, for some bring gusto for recent fiction and poetry, while others are steeped in current events, while others want to pursue their own creative bent through writing workshops. Diverse age groups also find their way onto Key’s campus: activities for younger readers have become equally prolific as those for the older set, making of ABF Saturday a family

occasion. All attendees seem to share an enthusiasm for the rich menu of offerings and for a day of intellectual stimulation blended with additional relaxing entertainment.

3. What effect, if any, has the rise of electronic publishing had on the Festival?

The Annapolis Book Festival is embracing new technologies by partnering with Barnes and Noble and selling Nooks and downloadable E-books onsite for the first time. Since printed books are still of interest to many who attend the Festival, featured authors will have both versions of their books available. We celebrate the beauty, power, and passion of the written word whether on paper or on screen.

4. What are some of the highlight events you have planned for the 2013 festival?

More than twenty-four authors are slated to attend this year’s Annapolis Book Festival, so we have much to highlight. With panel presentations comprising nationally renowned authors in discussion of timely topics, the Festival provides ample opportunity for attendees to interact with the writers as well as to have books signed.

Attached is a schedule of the Festival events inclusive of panel discussions, writing workshops, family activities, and book sales.

Highlights of the Annapolis Book Festival, April 13, 2013

Selected Visiting Authors: Jake Tapper, who is chief

Washington correspondent and anchor for CNN as well as a regular on Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News with Diane Sawyer. [ Recent Book: The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor ]

Kathleen Ernst, a historical novelist, social historian, and educator, who is written six bestselling books about Caroline Abbott, American Girl’s newest historical figure.

Hanna Rosin, the senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and founder and editor at DoubleX, Slate Magazine’s site for women. [Recent Book: The End of Men and the Rise of Women]

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Young baseball fanatics will be able to talk with David Kelly, author of the wildly popular “Ballpark Mysteries.” Hear what has inspired Kelly to write mysteries surrounding your favorite hallowed ground.

journalist and public speaker. She lectures nationwide and has keynoted numerous events including the 2012 International Congress on Autoimmunity and Johns Hopkins Annual Women’s Health Conference. [Recent Book: The Last Best Cure] associate editor of The Washington Post. From 2009 to 2011, he reported on the war in Afghanistan for the Post.

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and was a Republican member of Congress for sixteen years, serving as a member of the House Republican Leadership and as a member of the Appropriations and Budget Committees. [Recent Book: The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans]

Horse enthusiasts can meet a real racehorse at the Annapolis Book Festival! Anne Hambleton, author of Raja: Story of a Racehorse, reveals the tragedies and triumphs that befall a thoroughbred racehorse—from the horse’s point of view.

Selected Panel Discussions: Afghanistan: Twelve Years and Counting (Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Jake Tapper)

Can Women Have It All? Or, Do They Already?

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(Corey Olsen, assistant professor of English at Washington College and author of Exploring JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, advocates the importance and need for fantasy literature. Alex Cortright, morning show host and music director of Annapolis radio station WRNR, will moderate.)

Selected Workshops and Events The Writers Center of Bethesda will be offering two workshops for aspiring writers again this year: The Ever Evolving Landscape of Publishing and What Authors Read.

We are pleased to be partnering with Annapolis’ Third Eye Comics to bring COMICKEY, a family-friendly comic adventure to the Festival this year. Graphic novel and comic book enthusiasts will have the opportunity to meet comic book creators and join in the battle of the Avengers vs. the X-Men. Come and learn how to draw your own super hero and take home a souvenir picture of yourself as a comic hero.

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For the most comprehensive information, readers should visit the Annapolis Book Festival website: www.keyschool.org/ annapolisbookfestival and like Annapolis Book Festival on Facebook.

Updates are also provided via Key School on Twitter.

Special thanks to Irfan Latimer for her assistance with this feature.

Annapolis Town Crier Squire Frederick greets festival-goers and announces events throughout the day

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Mix the ground almonds and powdered sugar together, making sure there are no lumps. Add to the meringue (egg white and sugar) mixture. Mix together well. There is no need to be gentle here. Add any gel or powder coloring you want to add at this point. The next step is to use a pastry scraper or hard spatula to push back and forth in this mixture for 5 minutes. This pushes out a lot of the air in the mixture. Once completed, put the mixture in a pastry bag fitted with a #10 tip. On parchment paper lined trays, squeeze out small rounds (about the size of a 50 cent piece) from the pastry bag, leaving space between them

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to spread a bit. It is best to make them roughly the same size so that they will all be cooked uniformly when removed from the oven.

Let these piped circles sit out for 30 minutes to an hour. This helps to form the “feet” of the macaron shell. In a preheated fan oven (set to 320 degrees), cook for 10 to 12 minutes. Test the top of one macaron at 10 minutes to see if it wobbles when you touch it. If so, cook another minute or two.

When the pans are removed from the oven, let the shells cool on the cooking sheets. Remove them from the parchment with a palate knife. This helps to handle the shell delicately and prevents breakage. If they stick to the paper, try either letting them sit out an hour longer or pop the tray in a freezer; both of these tricks can help with removal.

When ready to fill, line up in pairs, choosing the ones that pair easily before filling.

**The above recipe is used for both types of macarons; you may color them according to their filling.

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TIRAMISU FILLING:

Ingredients

Ingredients

• 100 grams unsalted butter, softened • 180 milliliters of milk (full fat) • 2 tablespoons pistachio meal • 30 more grams of pistachio meal • a few drops of almond extract • 1 egg • 20 grams of sugar • 20 grams of custard powder (usually near the gelatin section)

Instructions In a saucepan, bring milk, all ground pistachios, and almond flavoring to near boiling. Separately, mix egg, sugar, and custard powder. Off the heat, add the egg mixture to the pistachio mixture whisking well together. Return to low heat and stir until thickened. Cover with plastic wrap to prevent skin from forming on the custard. Let cool. Once cool, cream the butter and then add the cooled mixture and mix well.

Transfer to a piping bag with a #10 tip and pipe filling onto one shell of each pair. Assemble the macarons. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours before serving. The macarons can be frozen.

• 130 grams whipping cream • 2 tablespoons coffee powder or 1 of espresso powder • 170 grams white chocolate • a few drops of almond extract

Instructions Heat the cream with the coffee powder in a saucepan. Melt the chocolate in a bowl over boiling water. Slowly add it to the cream. Add the almond flavoring. Cool in the refrigerator for an hour.

Transfer to a piping bag with a #10 tip and pipe filling onto one shell of each pair. Assemble the macarons. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours before serving. The macarons can be frozen.

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