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Anna Martin recalls memories of her years living in Montecito
Amelia Buckley is a class of 2020 graduate from UC Santa Barbara and works as an editorial and communications associate for The Optimist Daily.
Chef Nancy Weiss:
Kitchen to Community
With her captivating and confident demeanor, Chef Nancy Weiss says she often gets confused for a New Yorker. In reality, her love affair with food began a little closer to the Santa Barbara area where she would eventually cultivate her culinary career. Growing up in Los Angeles, Weiss became infatuated with the kitchen at age 12 and formed a relationship with food that would last a lifetime.
The daughter of a dedicated teacher working long hours and an Eastern European Holocaust survivor, Weiss’ early relationship with food was tumultuous. She describes her mother as an “anti-domestic” whose weekday eating habits alternated between Nancy Weiss has been a food leader in Santa family McDonalds meals and intense Barbara for over 30 years dieting. planned out what she would cook for
Weekends were Weiss’ solace. While the family. Faced with limited ingreher mother frequented the beauty pardients, she would make do with what lor, Weiss and her father watched she could find to feed her parents and movies, either John Wayne, Tarzan, or war movies, and Nancy meticulously PROFILES Page 304
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PROFILES (Continued from page 29) two older brothers. These creative creations included meals such as blended canned asparagus with sour cream.
Despite her mother’s disdain for the kitchen, Weiss remarks that they still reminisce humorously about her eclectic early meals. She smiles as she tells me that special occasions called for classics such as her father’s grilled steak, baked potatoes, and salad with blue cheese. Although simple compared to the recipes she would later create, Weiss describes these early childhood delicacies with fondness.
Putting Cooking on the Back Burner
Weiss took a step back from her asparagus endeavors as she headed north to complete her undergraduate degree in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, but cooking quickly recaptured her attention after graduation. I had to ask: how does one go from majoring in English to a life in the food industry? Weiss says she has always loved to read and write, but after developing rheumatoid arthritis in her third year of undergrad, she was left feeling burnt out. She felt as though she had lost her drive.
After dabbling in finance at a stock brokerage house, Weiss returned to her childhood passion and got a job as a prep chef at a local restaurant. She speaks with admirable honesty about the transition. She is naturally gifted in the kitchen and she knows it. She says, “I am very quick, super organized, and very creative with food. I have good technique.”
Weiss’ love of writing did not dissipate as she focused on food. She says she found great pleasure in writing the menu: “I had a lot of fun describing food.” She explains writing about food isn’t too different from writing about literature. They are both artistic endeavors.
If you’re going to interview Chef Nancy Weiss, you’d better do it on a full stomach.
Listening to her describe some signature items, it’s clear she crafts a captivating menu. She easily conjures up images of bacon wrapped oysters and fattoush salad. She lights up as she tells me about these memorable dishes. Her passion for the craft shines through her vivid descriptions.
Going Solo with SOhO
In 1986, at age 26, she took a leap of faith and opened her own restaurant: SOhO. Tucked into an enclave on State Street, the intimate food and music venue was her pride and joy. Although it was difficult and demanding, she poured herself into its success.
She speaks affectionately of its success, but it took all of her. It is part of the reason she never had kids. While 30 MONTECITO JOURNAL
Weiss sources produce from a local Santa Barbara County farm other friends were settling down, she spent her entire reproductive years cooking hard. The restaurant was like her child. She explains the feeling vividly: “I remember just not having the appetite for a relationship at that time because my relationship with the restaurant was so deep and satisfying.”
When her mother’s health declined and she began to feel overwhelmed traveling between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, she made the difficult decision to let the restaurant go. She sold her shares and began looking for a job with the initial goal of just finding one with a healthcare plan to cover her arthritis care.
Engaging with Education
No children meant that when Weiss took a job as a chef for the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) in 2000, she had no idea the kind of food being served to these kids. Quite frankly she tells me, it was “chicken nuggets and garbage.” She now had a new project: getting healthier food to local kids.
Her childhood expertise of whipping together meals with limited ingredients surprisingly prepared her perfectly for the new role. Determined to make nuggets healthier, she spiced up marinara sauce by dicing in carrots and celery and added it to the nuggets. Her improvised version of chicken parmesan was just the beginning. Soon she brought in farmers who she had developed relationships with at SOhO and got them contracts with
the district. Lettuce, carrots, and other high demand goods were now coming from local vendors.
To this day, SBUSD sources 30 percent of its ingredients from local suppliers. Her efforts to make healthy and delicious food a part of every child’s school day did not go unnoticed. In 2008, SBUSD began to take active steps towards district-wide revamping of its food systems. Weiss interviewed for the position of food director. When she got it she was able to expand her ideas county-wide.
A Down-to-earth Cooking Philosophy
So how do you make healthy food appealing to kids? It’s a pretty key part of the job. Weiss’ philosophy is simple: you make the classics using fresh, unprocessed ingredients. Grilled cheese, spaghetti and meatballs, pizza, but all from scratch. You make homemade ranch dressing and get kids excited about eating their vegetables. For a highly accomplished chef, her relationship with food is refreshingly down to earth. You get the feeling that there is a time and place for haute cuisine and there is also a time for a simple turkey sandwich.
Changing Mealtime Culture
Along with her healthy ingredient mentality, she also aimed to change how students saw the culture of mealtime. She wanted lunch time to be a collective and communal part of the school day. She says it should be “a celebration of refueling your body.” Healthy lunch programs with whole student body participation are about more than just eating in fellowship.
According to Weiss, at least 60 percent of the children in Santa Barbara participate in free lunch programs, meaning they qualify for a subsidized school meal each day. The dichotomy between students who receive free
lunch and those who bring their own meal or buy lunch complicates the food culture on campus. She says at some schools, there were even student stores selling Domino’s pizza to wealthier children. Weiss had a different vision: work with the school food program, sell our healthier pizza, and have it available to all kids so nobody feels left out.
Expanding food quality and diversity was a big part of getting more students on board with school lunch. Weiss offered a plant-based entree option every day. Creations such as nachos with vegan coconut cheese made the program accessible to more students. She also brought in food trucks to serve schools without permissible kitchens such as St. Rafael’s and Notre Dame’s.
Weiss explains that, unfortunately, the district and nature of the industry is highly political. It took some pushing from locals to encourage the district to embrace healthier options.
A Political Perspective
Local Santa Barbara resident and founder of Kinko’s, Paul Orfalea, helped push the transition. In 2008, he took up funding kitchens with proper infrastructure and hired chefs to go into district kitchens and help train employees. His initiative coincided with Weiss’ promotion to director and a larger federal initiative to boost healthy food in schools promoted by Michelle Obama. These intersectional healthy food initiatives propelled the program towards a more nutritious future.
According to Weiss, over the next three years, Orfalea sunk millions into this initiative with her as one of his key strategists. The work didn’t go unnoticed. In 2015, Weiss won the Golden Carrot Award from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The award recognizes schools and food service directors across the country who work to create programs that encourage students to eat healthier and prevent disease.
I was curious about how federal policies affect food programs on the local level. The Trump administration has been taking steps to reverse federal healthy food policies, but Weiss says, unless he raises the poverty line which allows families to apply for food subsidies, it won’t affect local programs.
Retirement and Greek Delicacies
Weiss retired from the SBUSD on January 12 of this year, on her 60th birthday. What’s next for the chef and community advocate? She’s definitely not giving up her busy schedule.
She is starting a culinary program at the United Boys & Girls Club where she will be teaching one or two days 9 – 16 July 2020 a week. She is piloting a funding campaign to get similar culinary programs in clubs across the county. The Westside facility is named “Nancy’s Kitchen” in her honor. In her new role, she will feed her passion for food and education by teaching kids from elementary-aged to teens about cooking and gardening. She says, “There is so much curriculum that can come from the kitchen.”
She plans to incorporate the student garden into her cooking classes and show how food goes from farm to table. She does this through projects such as harvesting radishes, pickling them, and eating them on homemade street tacos. Her first class is St. Patrick’s Day and they will be celebrating with green smoothie recipes.
Weiss has also been invited to start a senior citizen and student cooking collaboration project at a local retirement community, Pilgrim Terrace. Additionally, she will be working with the Good Samaritan Shelter to revitalize the greenhouses on one of their rural properties. She is bringing in her agricultural connections to repair and plant the greenhouses in order to use them to teach people about working in agriculture and growing their own produce. The program will serve about 200 individuals in the community who are housing insecure.
Weiss’ new schedule doesn’t sound much like a restful retirement, but for someone with her energy and drive, an empty schedule just isn’t an option. She loves the kitchen too much. I couldn’t help but ask what her favorite dish to make is. She says it’s moussaka: a Greek dish with layered grilled eggplant, tomato sauce, spinach, ground lamb, and Bechamel sauce. Something like a Greek lasagna. You can almost smell the garlic and slow cooked vegetables during her mouth-watering description.
After 40 years of professional cooking, I wondered if she still cooked for pleasure in her free time. Her response: “Every single day.” •MJ
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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 20) instrument. It’s truly collaborative music where the piano and the clarinet voice
Obviously Zoom sound quality isn’t great. How do you cope with that? are one in their musical importance, more like three-hand piano where the com
Well, there’s no point in trying to argue the audio quality of Zoom. It’s at poser’s voice is pulled across two instruments. best half the recording quality of a compact disc, so everything is muted. Dynamics are limited because the software is designed for working with Looking ahead, they’re saying it could be at least another six months before we’re voice. And for some reason, whenever I or any of my students play a B natural going to have indoor concerts. What happens when you contemplate that possible on the clarinet, it makes the whole program just kind of short circuit for a few reality? moments and it sounds like they’re playing underwater. However, what my lt’s an anxious time for all musicians. But there’s more of an unsettling feelstudents do is pre-record what we’re going to work on in lessons and mastering if you’re in the age group of the fellows, 20-24, where they’re just about to class with the high-quality microphones and digital packages the Academy launch their careers and they’ve got all of these hopes and dreams and nothing provided and then upload it to YouTube, which has a very high resolution. So is tangible for an audition in the fall or a possible competition in the spring. It’s we’re all listening in high fidelity and then discussing the pieces and workabstract on a level that they’ve never known. So it’s wonderful that MARLI has ing on them in person live on Zoom… We have gotten to a point where I can given them the electronic tools to start their own broadcasting of their musical freeze a frame, I can screen share or zoom in on some physical issues with the expression. Supplying the fellows with technology packets and then the knowlfingers that they might be having and then circle it almost like John Madden edge and practical experience of using it with some of the projects that they’re does in an instant replay for an NFL football game. Basically, there’s been a doing together – it’s incredible. lot of ways that I’ve adapted to being online that augmented my teaching, in a manner that makes me almost want to have a virtual video grease board when Navigating the Cyberspace World I teach normally when we can be in person again. MAW collaborative piano chair Jonathan Feldman, who is operating out of his home in New Jersey, has yet to make peace with the coronavirus-created
You are a personable guy, and I recall from whenever I’ve attended one of your masconditions that have forced him to spend the summer connecting with the felterclasses on campus that you are very open and friendly with your students. So much lows from nearly 3,000 miles across the continent from Montecito. so that the audience can feel that connection. Have you been able to establish comradery “I’m very happy to be home in the summer for the first time in twenty years, and cohesiveness online? but it’s a challenge for my department,” he said. “We make music with part
Before MARLI started, when we were just starting to wonder how the world ners, so it’s debilitating in many ways to try to do something online. It’s imposwas going to work, I reached out to the students because I was really worried sible with Zoom because of the lag time.” that we wouldn’t have that connection. But I’ve noticed through these three The first encounter with Zoom delay was a doozy, Feldman said. weeks so far that there’s a definite personality to my studio and it is a result of “One of my piano students would play and I started to sing with them and (the fellows) interacting with each other in our classes, and acting as a team… they slowed down to be in time with me. Then I accommodated the slowing So we really have gone from zero to a tremendous working relationship and down by going even slower, and they slowed down even more because they respect for each other very quickly. It’s something I believe that the Music were hearing it later and they wanted to be with me. I realized it was better to Academy seems to foster, even if it’s only in a virtual electronic form. I don’t keep my mouth shut.” know how, but there’s some magic about MAW. Instead, Feldman has focused the studio on talking with the pianists about
The leadership has inspired us all to foster these relationships with our stupreparing a score, perhaps for a first rehearsal. dios in the same manner as before. So the fellows are looking forward to work“I have been showing them particular places that they have to watch out for, ing with each other again in person next summer, which helps create camarathings where they might be uncomfortable physically or technically, and so derie. It’s really fun to say, “Oh, by the way, I just got back from getting takeout that they have a concept of where the articulations are and how to approach from the Public Market.” Then I show them the food and say, “Don’t worry. the fine details,” he said. “It’s been very productive from that standpoint. And Next year after our masterclass, we will be eating the same meal together.” what MAW is doing with MARLI is quite remarkable in showing all the fellows how you can navigate in this cyberspace world, putting together all the pieces
What has been among the highlights for you? to the puzzle.”
Seeing how a couple of my students played live in the masterclass last Working with the fellows and fellow faculty on layered recordings has been Friday when the Compeers were there and hearing how much they miss pervaluable too, he said, because, when it comes to COVID-19, “we’re in it and it forming. It did seem like we were in the same room when one even said he ain’t going away.” was feeling nervous like he would at a concert, and he forgot what it feels like. “The (layering process) pinpoints your own musical interpretation They all felt this sense of pride and excitement about giving a performance because you have to be precise as to how you’re playing. When you’re live for other people. playing live with someone, things can vary. Sometimes you want to hold a particular note for emotional purposes a little longer than you were earlier
What has been the most unexpected aspect, a hidden asset if you will, of working during rehearsal, or maybe you need to accommodate (a wind player’s) remotely with the fellows and other faculty? breathing. But with these processes you have to be very, very exact as to how
The beauty of (MAW President) Scott Reed’s vision. He realized early on you want to put it down. So from that standpoint in my business, it is very that all these students would be floating out there between the end of this important. And it’s been good for me, because when it comes to computers, past school year and the coming one in a manner that’s quite surreal, without I’m techno-moronic.” knowing whether they’d be in person in the fall, or back online, or perhaps PC ineptitude aside, Feldman teamed with MAW trumpeter Paul Merkelo taking a deferment. And that’s amid the uncertainty around musical perforfor a performance of Honegger’s Intrada, one of the signature entries in the mance and the ability to audition. He recognized the need for this musical Music Academy Concert Hall Online daily postings. island, this place that would be a sanctuary of learning, an almost holistic “It was done in sections and it was a lot of work, and it wasn’t very satisfying case for us to come together as a community. His team figured out how to for me on a musical level (to make it),” he said. “Yet I was amazed at how the manage everything from the equipment packages to coordinating schedules technology can be learned and utilized, which was fascinating.” across the planets, and it’s been extraordinary how Scott’s vision for (MARLI) Feldman, who also hosted an online masterclass with legendary pianist has come to life. Emanuel Ax earlier in the summer at MARLI, his former classmate and current fellow faculty member at Juilliard, said he’s even more curious to see what
I’m wondering if in teaching from your studio on the MAW campus, you get more a happens with the project that the MAW fellows are putting together for the sense of that Miraflores vibe. I imagine it’s got to feel different than if you were at home. last week of the MARLI program and the two-week mentoring program that
Definitely. But for me, it’s bittersweet because I can feel the ghosts of all my follows. colleagues from afar and I miss their presence. But even though the campus is “It’s really quite remarkable what can get done.” empty, knowing that everyone is part of this electronic musical current that is Feldman will close out his portion of the summer with a masterclass with going on with MAW is really inspiring and I’m really proud to be part of it. Anne Epperson, who created the collaborative piano program at MAW. And he was also looking forward to the last studio meeting with the students
Speaking of colleagues, you recently recorded an album with MAW pianist Conor which, he said, will be a conversation about what they’ve accomplished and Hanick – and a video of one of the pieces ran last week on the daily Concert Hall what comes next. He interrupted himself while relaying that last part, though, Online. What drew you to each other to form the duo? Why do you think it works? because he caught something outside the window in his Bergen County, New
Because we both have a collective interest in exploring new music that is very Jersey, home. accessible yet still incredibly rich in its authenticity. (What we play) isn’t like a “There’s a deer crossing my driveway here, just looking around for somesolo flute and piano or solo violin and piano, where it’s a showcase for a single thing to eat,” he said. “It really is nice to be home.” •MJ 32 MONTECITO JOURNAL “The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.” – Reinhard Bonnke 9 – 16 July 2020
So because of beach closures and stay-at-home orders I decided to use some quality quarantine time to do a deep dive on the Founding Fathers and see if I couldn’t defend them against Shaun King’s charges and vitriol. It seemed like a good, patriotic use of my Independence Day weekend.
In the U.S. the Founding Fathers, their principles and doctrines and intentions, seem as oft invoked as the Bible – and for every conceivable purpose. Are the Founders worthy of our hero worship? Every U.S. President, at one point or another, invokes the Founding Fathers in order to wrap rhetoric in the flag. But the America of the Founding Fathers is 250 years old and bears little resemblance to today’s world. Could the Framers have possibly planned for the complicated challenges we face today?
The America of the Founding Fathers
The America of the Founding Fathers had a total population of four million, 500,000 of whom were African (or in some cases Native American) slaves. The city with the most slaves was Charleston, South Carolina. The city with the second highest slave population… New York. The most populous state in the Union was Virginia, a colony in which nine of our first ten presidents owned plantations. The defaced Frederick Douglass statue July 6th, 2020 (www.mytwintiers.com)
None of the privacy matters we grapple with today could have been anticam now aware of facts that can’t help but recolor those memories. ipated by the Founding Fathers because there was no internet and electricity These facts were certainly not told to my kids on their 5 th grade Colonial Trip was still 100 years off. Surveillance meant someone literally lurking outside when they visited Mount Vernon. If ignorance is bliss, knowledge often comes your window and invasion of privacy would have involved someone reading with… well… a loss of innocence, consternation, Sturm und Drang. A need to your mail, then resealing it with a counterfeit wax seal. The Postmaster General take a position and perhaps even a need to take action. was not established until the Constitutional Convention of 1787, so concepts Like most of us, I grew up with the dignified Washington whose image is on like vote-by-mail really couldn’t have been considered or even conceived of. our stamps and money. That upright guy bravely crossing the frozen Potomac
Looking back on the Founding Fathers and their “intentions,” when the at Valley Forge. Not a guy with 317 slaves working his tobacco farm, a man who Second Amendment (the Right to Bear Arms) was written, there were only two pursued his runaway slaves with the same relentlessness with which he drove kinds of guns: long barrel muskets and flint lock pistols, both of which took the British out of Trenton. I’m bothered by the complexity of Washington and about half a minute to get off a shot and reload. even more bothered that for so long I was passively yet blissfully ignorant to
The Electoral College was another Founding Father anachronism, in part all this. Ignorant that while I was at the beach enjoying fireworks, many African enacted as a way to “count” slaves to gin up more delegates for slave states, Americans seethed at July 4 th , pained by its ironic and oft invoked references to while simultaneously denying slaves the actual right to vote. Historian and the Land of the Free while they were, literally, shackled. Pulitzer winner Garry Wills of Lincoln At Gettysburg speculated that without In the early 1800s one black paper called the 4th “the bleakest day of the the additional slave state votes, Jefferson would have lost the presidential year. We wish we could blot it from the calendar.” And in fact, after the last of election of 1800. Just as, later, John Quincy Adams would have lost to Andrew New York’s slaves were emancipated in 1827, many African Americans did not Jackson. Others who lost the popular vote but won in the electoral college were whatsoever celebrate the 4th and instead staged annual protests on July 5th. Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, W, and of course, Donald Trump. The former slave turned abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his Principles of the Founding Fathers famous speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852 to the Rochester (NY) Ladies Anti-Slavery Society. I think Douglass expressed best
So here we are in July 2020, everyone’s nominee for Worst Year of the Millenia the July 4th quandary whereby we celebrate our patriots whilst acknowledging (the one thing on which we can all agree), and as just one facet of this tumulthose excluded from the American achievement. tuous year the Founding Fathers and other heroes considered foundational Douglass wrote: are today being torn down either actually or metaphorically. Should their images and the ideas behind these men be protected at all cost? Or was George “Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the Fathers of this Republic. Washington a “monster” as Shaun King said? The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were
The Father of Our Country owned 317 slaves at Mount Vernon. He received great men, too. (However) the point from which I am compelled to view them his first personal slave at age 11. From all reports (and there are books about it) is not… the most favorable. Yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less we know that Washington was a harsh taskmaster. In fairness, slavery was an than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good accepted practice in human civilization almost since its inception. Perhaps this they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor speaks as much to the fundamental brutality of which humanity has certainly their memory.” proved capable as it does to the character of those who owned slaves. Almost Douglass goes on: “But I say with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I every culture has had slavery at one point or another. And there are millions of am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high indeslaves scattered around the globe right now according to the Walk Free Global pendence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in Slavery Index. which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance
While the prevalence of slavery does not justify Washington’s slave ownerof justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is ship, should we factor in what was considered accepted practice in “civilized” shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, society at that time? has brought stripes and death to me. The 4th of July is yours, not mine.”
Washington’s false teeth, long thought to be wooden, were actually human teeth “purchased” from the mouths of Washington’s own living slaves. The docSo how is Mr. Douglass’ legacy doing today? uments regarding the provenance of his slave teeth are housed in the Library of This past weekend, on July 5th, 2020, on the 168th anniversary of Mr. Congress in the city named after himself. Douglass delivering that speech in Rochester, where he fled from his enslave
The wood teeth myth is even refuted on the Mount Vernon website where ment in Maryland, the statue of Frederick Douglass was desecrated, moved off they admit GW’s teeth were human but don’t go so far as to say they were slave its pedestal, and irreparably damaged. teeth. His slaves’ teeth. That’s the kind of fudging of history that exemplifies my Which brings us to today, July 8th, and finding a path forward. public-school education. While it’s true that in those days it was not unheard I do not advocate “canceling” the 4th or tossing it in the river like the bust of for poor people to sell their teeth to the wealthy, my guess is when that poor of some confederate general. But I do think the 4th should be a celebration person was a slave, saying “no” to “Master” was not really a viable option. that puts on display our Founding Fathers, warts and all. A multidimensional
These are facts. You may not like these facts. I don’t like these facts. Especially picture. A celebration for ALL Americans. More nuanced, inclusive, and most today, I think we all have a desire for something pure we can cling to: forthright importantly, tied to the complete historical record. Maybe one day we’ll celebrate Founding Fathers, perfect heroes and, in the absence of perfect heroes, perfect the 4th-to-the-5th of July. A grand, two-day celebration of black joy and white documents. We are all fond of words to live by. Mottos. Commandments. Holy joy and every joy in between. Let’s honor those who suffered to get us where we books. An immutable and inalienable Constitution. I was happy with my are today, those who suffered at the hands of our enemies but also those who parades and my barbecues, my sparklers and my Kodachrome memories. But I suffered at the hands of our Forefathers. •MJ 34 MONTECITO JOURNAL “When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.” – Richard Lewis 9 – 16 July 2020
Aspen, Georgia Brown Home, named for one of his daughters, which will be a pop up this summer.
Born in Torrance, Brown has lived in California most of his life. He and his wife, Kristine, and their two children, Raleigh, 13, and Georgia, 12, moved to Montecito three years ago. The girls are also helping out their pop this summer in Summerland. Found most days hawking his wares at his newest venture, Brown also travels to L.A. one to two days a week to oversee the Big Daddy’s showroom and warehouse in the big city.
His love for vintage and antique goods that catch his eye and that of noted designers and savvy shoppers – and crossing his palm with silver – began at a young age.
“My grandfather took me to flea markets when I was a kid. We’d stop at estate sales too, as well as go golfing,” recalled Brown, “My grandfather never sold anything. He bought and gave it away. When I was twelve years old and I visited Hearst Castle with my maternal grandmother, I thought ‘Wow! Rich people love antiques.’”
In his mid-twenties, Brown realized he needed to do something to subsidize his income as the general manager for a Los Angeles messenger service. He started dabbling in vintage and antique goods, selling at the Santa Monica and Rose Bowl swap meets on weekends and would make as much money in one day as what he made all month at his day job.
He says he “hasn’t looked back” since launching a career that has included traveling all over the U.S. and the world, shopping and buying while meeting “interesting and fun people” along the way. Brown also began buying income properties in Aspen, Texas and California as vacation rentals on VRBO and Home Away. His wife handles that aspect of their family run businesses, while their two children are helping out this summer at The Well.
About 80% of the Lillie Avenue address that has been beautifully restored and enhanced is now open. Brown brought in huge olive trees, gave all the buildings a fresh coat of gleaming white paint, and is still working on finishing touches on the back building so the planning department can sign off on the final permit.
The spot on the corner where Summerland’s original post office once stood is now filled with unique items as is the spot where many of us enjoyed coffee and social interaction once upon a time. Now you’ll find vintage and antique wares, Brown’s “upcycled” pieces (that’s recycled that’s been re-imagined and re-worked into something new, better, and with an upcycled price tag). There are garden fountain walls on display that can be recreated in your own garden (and already have been!) as well as a cool and funky back stone wall punctuated with old window and door frames.
“I’ve coveted the space for twenty years,” Brown admitted, “I drove by one day and saw an available to rent sign,” He negotiated a lease with Helen Pollack (who is 101 by the way!) and her son Tom and says he hopes to purchase the property one day.
Then the pandemic hit. Work stopped for about six weeks, but the gates opened just a few weeks ago.
“The mix of old with new is very key to success of that property,” says Brown, who is “upcycling” constantly with items like a stone mill stone that he turns into a table as well as upcycling lamps.
“I try to stay ahead of all the other retailers,” says the cutting-edge tastemaker, whose four-year-old licensing deal for the Big Daddy collection with Pottery Barn was a result of the company copying him for years, he says. The capsule collection includes reclaimed wood bedroom furnishings.
The Well also offers a mélange of services including home staging, interior design, and hardscaping. (Brown had already been out on four landscaping calls at the time of this interview.) And all employees are wearing masks, inside and outside.
“People are excited about the 60’ fountain wall concept that we installed, as well as the fireplace wall,” noted the man who admits he always wanted a home and garden store. “We can come and build either at your home to your specs.”
The 50’ Santa Barbara stone wall in the back embedded with old doors and windows can also be replicated with doors and windows selected from The Well inventory and grout color of a customer’s choice.
It appears that “rich people” do love antiques. Within the first few weeks of opening items in the store were littered with SOLD signs and Brown says the substantiable sales will help
The Well, which recently opened in the former Café Luna/ Summerland Oriental Rugs compound on Lillie Avenue in the heart of Summerland
fill Santa Barbara county’s sales tax coffers.
Garden items from Europe abound, as well as a massive, $24,000 bronze fountain that Brown purchased in Bel Air, but there are also succulents for $5. Shoppers can also buy a ceramic container to put together a quick gift with potting soil and rocks on hand (a great project for your kids while you shop perhaps?) or have the staff create a lovely plant arrangement.
It’s nice to know that a new business is booming during these stressful and unnerving times. The world could use some good economic news these days.
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Longtime fixture Summerland Oriental Rugs has moved their showroom across the street to the former home of Clive Markey’s Pine Trader. Longtime treasure-filled Summerland Antiques Collective re-opened a few weeks ago and has been buzzing with activity adding to the retail mix… Carpinteria’s Porch is moving from Santa Claus Lane to Lillie Avenue (into the space formerly known as Just Folk and briefly as Letter Perfect). Porch solo proprietor Diana Dolan calls the move “bittersweet” as she will lose some outdoor space, but due to upcoming 101 improvements and a big construction project on the Lane, felt it was a good time to make the “unplanned” move. Dolan was looking for pop up space and ended up leasing the building, which has been painted inside and out with Summerland’s “historical white”... Sacred Space is open with social distancing (no more tea served, but the garden is open) Thursday-Sunday and since moving to Summerland three years ago, Jack and Rose Herschorn are loving living in the wee seaside town.
Seems like any “for lease” sign in Summerland is hot these days… and retail is thriving. Summerland’s historical meaning as “a place of limbo between death and afterlife” takes on new meaning in the days of COVID.
Since the Grand Jury’s report became public last week, numerous local news stories and editorials have appeared about Santa Barbara’s cannabis controversy, including a July 5 Los Angeles Times article by investigative reporter Joe Mozingo, whose previous reporting on Santa Barbara’s cannabis policy first uncovered many of the allegations of corruption and undue influence that were extensively catalogued in the new report. In that article, Williams claimed the paper was only presenting “one side” of the story, while Lavagnino accused the Grand Jury of being an out-of-touch bunch of squares. “The demographics of the Grand Jury are not reflective of the county as a whole,” he elaborated. “It is not at all surprising to me that a group of predominantly white senior citizens is uncomfortable accepting that cannabis is now mainstream.”
This week, in an interview with the Montecito Journal, Williams claimed it was “ethically questionable” for any reporter to write about a Grand Jury report before an official response could be issued [it’s not], but nonetheless agreed to speak on the record. “I guess I can tell you that Grand Juries are typically critical of processes,” Williams began. “That’s okay. I take seriously the responsibility to improve any situation the Grand Jury talks about, whether it’s homelessness or this matter.”
Williams claimed he felt the Grand Jury had unfairly targeted him. “The questions they asked were so narrow in focus it was clear to me they already knew what their story was before they asked me,” he said. “They demonstrated a lack of knowledge about land use and the county’s limited options before permitting was put in place.”
In his defense, Williams argued that his efforts to regulate the cannabis industry were genuine, if imperfect, and that he only took office after Proposition 64 had essentially mandated the expansion of cannabis grows in California. “Mistakes were made, but we made a rational response to something that was already in existence,” he said, although he denied any notion that he was in the pocket of the cannabis lobby. “The weirdest thing is, I have always had a policy of accepting a meeting from anybody who wants to meet. I view that as my job, so from the movers and shakers of this community to the dual-diagnosed people who send me handwritten, three-page letters about conspiracies, I meet with all these people. Everyone gets unfettered access to government in my view. That’s how it should work.”
In a trio of text messages, Williams subsequently denied all three of the Grand Jury’s main allegations against him. “We’ve caught a sizable proportion of marijuana growers who tried to game the system and held them accountable,” he said, adding that 72 raids and 23 prosecutions show evidence of the program’s success. “It’s possible we would have caught more by adjudicating every single one, but it’s also possible we would have caught far less because we’d still be in the process of holding hearings on them.”
Williams also argued that taxing cannabis growers by gross receipts rather than by actual size was the product of popular demand rather than any undue influence of the cannabis lobby. He has a point, because whatever its origins, when Supervisors officially weighed in on the proposed ordinance on February 13, 2018, Supervisors Janet Wolf and Joan Hartmann also voted in favor of it. Steve Mann, a conservative rancher, was the only no vote. Then on June 5 of that year, 75 percent of county voters marked “yes” when asked to vote on whether to approve the gross receipts-based tax. “The voters approved this method of taxation and we can’t change it with
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out going back to the voters,” Williams contended, adding that the county has hired an auditor “to make sure people are paying their correct amount of taxes.” He also pled ignorance of any missing documents or pattern of stonewalling, as alleged by jurors. “I was not aware of the County material,” he said in reference to the files, “but the Grand Jury cancelled three or four [of the] times we had allocated for their interview between the end of February and the end of April.”
Santa Barbara’s Board of Supervisors has 90 days to officially respond to the Grand Jury’s findings. Until then, Barney Melekian, an assistant county executive officer, refused to comment on the report beyond the county’s initial media response. “The Board of Supervisors had previously amended the cannabis land-use ordinance to restrict cultivation in response to community concerns, and as recently as two weeks ago, directed staff to bring back more changes to further restrict cultivation,” it states. “Staff will return with those ordinance changes on July 14.”
A Former Supervisor Remembers: “I Felt Like Alice in Wonderland”
Besides Williams, the Montecito Journal spoke with several other sources who were interviewed by the Grand Jury, including public officials who have clashed with both him and Lavagnino over cannabis. One of them is former Supervisor Wolf, who claims to have directly witnessed much of the alleged behavior mentioned in the jury’s report and who frequently voted against the pair on cannabis policy. “I thought that this report was one of the most comprehensive reports I have ever seen,” Wolf said. “The depth and information they had and asked for, and unfortunately there was some they apparently didn’t get, was pretty incredible. I thought they did a fabulous job.”
Wolf provided the lone vote in opposition to the creation of the Ad Hoc committee on cannabis, which she viewed as a conflict of interest, and she wasn’t surprised with the Grand Jury’s finding that emails and text messages suggested that the county was effectively outsourcing its policy to industry lobbyists. “We had never done such an enormous land use ordinance in the way that was being proposed,” she said. “To have it being done with two board members and without the Brown Act (which protects the public’s right to know how policies are deliberated behind closed doors) on the face of it was wrong.”
As Lavagnino and Williams began to articulate their vision for county cannabis policy to other board members, Wolf recalls, things got even weirder. “I couldn’t figure out why we were moving in the direction we were moving in when we had the schools and community members coming to us,” she said. “We were just moving forward.”
Wolf said she regrets voting in favor of the committee’s tax revenue proposal but is proud of the fact she publicly opposed the grower affidavit scheme. “That was the most ridiculous thing I ever saw,” she said, “the implications of which, of course, we are all seeing now.” ON THE RECORD THE RECORD Page 474
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