CONTENTS
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REAL ESTATES
With an over-the-shoulder look at Montecito’s heritage and his mind on
the future,
MJ
founder James Buckley gauges the modern-day housing
market and spotlights a handful of high-end homes from Hot Springs
Road to a beachfront resort.
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MOGULS AND MANSIONS
Hattie Beresford dusts off the storied pedigree of New Yorker James Waldron
Gillespie, a globetrotter who made history with his
El Fureidis
estate – “a
beautiful mirage” – and found his way to Santa Barbara, where he put down
roots in the early 1900s.
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BEHIND THE WHEEL
Car aficionado and
MJ
contributor Randy Lioz eyes a “unicorn” on wheels: real
estate investor Dan Kolodziejski’s SIATA 208S, which emerged in the 1950s
with quite a backstory that spans from Santa Barbara to Hawaii and back. Cars
& Coffee enthusiast Dan Hogan accelerates the conversation.
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PROFILES
Steven Libowitz gets to the roots of wife-and-husband melody makers Sarah
Lee Guthrie (youngest daughter of fabled folksinger Arlo Guthrie) and Johnny
Irion (related to author John Steinbeck), who along with their daughters made
Montecito their home two years ago.
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FAR FLUNG TRAVEL
Chuck Graham goes sea kayaking with guide Carl Donohue in southeast
Alaska – from Yakutat’s Icy Bay to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park – before
paddling amid glaciers and massive Taan Fjord in a region known as one of the
world’s most seismically active.
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IN STYLE
Easel does it: artist Karen Bezuidenhout has come a long way, literally, from
riding horses around Stellenbosch, South Africa, to her open-air studio on
Santa Barbara’s Riviera, where she sits down and brushes up with
Sentinel
contributor Briana Westmacott.
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Cover photo: Jim Bartsch
