Metro San Diego Edition • september/october 2017 NEW BOOK ABOUT SAN DIEGO’S KENSINGTON “Two thumbs up!” says Winnie Hanford KENSINGTON by Maggie McCann historic home tour of searching we had collected over 500 RESIDENT put on by Save Our photographs. Then we tackled the hard “San Diego’s Heritage Organisation part – putting it all together in a coherent PUBLISHES Kensington,” part of (SOHO). Kiley and and chronological order. Arcadia Publishing his wife, Alexandra, We start our story in Chapter One COOKBOOK! Company’s “Images work with Ron May with the mapping and promotion of The Goat at Legacy 106, an the first subdivision, Kensington Park. of America” series, is Farmer’s a 127-page softcover historic preservation Through the next six chapters we move Daughter is book that tells the consultancy, chronologically through the development a self pub- story of our beloved researching and of the rest of greater Kensington, including lished book neighborhood, writing nomination Kensington Annex, Kensington Manor, through rare and reports for people who Kensington Heights, Talmadge Park and written, vintage photographs. want to obtain historic several smaller subdivisions, some only one drawn and Available nationwide designation for their block long. We conclude with photographs designed on September 4th, the homes. They have and stories of people and events in our by Zoe book was authored by authored dozens of recent history, and more than one neighbor Mitchell. Kensington resident, impeccably researched will be surprised to find himself smiling Zoe is Margaret McCann, reports on homes in from the pages! 18 years and historical preservation experts, the Kensington, and I knew they were the Included among the many photographs old and husband and wife team of Alexandra and right people for the job of developing San are images of houses that no longer exist, has spent Kiley Wallace. Diego’s Kensington. There is a wealth of streetcars rolling down Adams Avenue, her entire When Arcadia Publishing approached information about Kensington in every old advertisements, photographs of life grow- me about producing a book of nomination report, so we had a good start builders, developers and promoters, kids ing up in historical photographs of our wonderful on uncovering the story. As it is a book on bicycles, dogs, families, parades and Kensington and exploring her passion for bak- neighborhood, I didn’t hesitate. Long have of historical images, our main task was proms. We finally came across an old ing. She first began over 10 years ago, selling I thought that as each day goes by, we finding 240 photographs that not only photo with a cat, but, alas, the book had cupcakes and lemonade on the side of the road. lose more and more old photos and the illustrated the story that we wanted to tell, already gone to press. Eventually she graduated from boxed mixes to memories that they represent. Longtime but also met the quality specifications of We look forward to celebrating the creating her own recipes and opening her own neighbors pass away, and out to the trash our publisher, Arcadia Publishing. launch of the book, and will keep the catering business called Zoe Cait Catering. The heap goes the shoebox of old photos and We searched the archives at the neighborhood posted about where in the business makes cupcakes for all sorts of events newspaper clippings. Kensington Community Church, Franklin local business district it can be found. In the from birthdays to weddings but Zoe still enjoyed In the first week after I moved to Elementary School, the Kensington- meantime, you will have to take Winnie’s making all sorts of other baked goods. Thats Kensington 14 years ago (a newcomer!) Normal Heights Branch Library, Hoover word on whether you should bother with when she decided to start writing down all of Betty Generoli crossed the street, knocked High School, the San Diego History it. Two days after I gave her an advanced on my door and introduced herself. She Center, and the Pacific Southwest Railway copy, she said, “It’s a good book – I’ve her (successful) recipes and compile them into handed me her copy of Dr. Thomas Museum. We reached out to neighbors already read it twice! And I will read it again, a cookbook. Right off the bat she wanted the Baumann’s book, Kensington-Talmadge, the Wallaces know from preparing historic because there is so much information in it book to stand out, so being an avid artist and 1910 – 1985. I had been a regular visitor reports, and we put up posters in the that you can’t absorb it in one reading.” illustrator, she decided to hand draw the entire to Kensington for over 30 years before windows of local businesses asking for old For more information about the book. Being able to combine her love of baking moving here, getting my chiropractic service photos. We searched Ancestry.com for book, visit www.arcadiapublishing.com/ and art was a dream come true, allowing her to from Dr. Ronald Redmond, and my hair biographic information on people who Products/9781467126724. n finish the book in just under 7 weeks. With such cut by Peter Mathews. So I knew about lived here 80 and 90 years ago, and we a fast timeline, Zoe spent each day cooking 3-5 the charming houses, walkable streets and found some photos there as well. We recipes as well as creating the corresponding convenient small businesses. I didn’t know roped Bob Sedlock into our project, and pages. After all the pages and recipes were done, the history of the place until I read Dr. he lent us his 1957 research report that he Zoe launched a Kickstarter to help fund the next Baumann’s book. After that, I wanted wrote after interviewing developers George steps: self publishing and marketing. The whole to know more, and I wanted to know Forbes and G. Aubrey Davidson. And we book process was a labor of love and when it how to preserve every inch of this unique asked Winnie Hanford, who happily gave came time to name it she looked to the recipe neighborhood. us the names of people who were sure to that started it all: “The Goat Farmer’s Daughter.” I met Kiley Wallace while we were have something hidden away that needed both serving as volunteer docents at an to see the light of day. After months Look for a sample recipe on Page Three PAID U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 67 GREENFIELD , IN PRESORTED STD

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AskA column forMike! random burning WINNIE’S PICKS! real estate questions and comments by Winnie Hanford of Kensington Video video all older people should watch to and responses from … me! A DOG’S PURPOSE – This is an inspire themselves With a little touch of humor… adorable and heartwarming story about dogs to get up out of our and their owners. Also, a nice love story. Just chairs . We need to This month’s topic…Property Values and Zillow light, but a very good family movie. walk or do some kind (or as I call it…an Urban Myth!) of exercise. This does PIAF HER STORY ... HER SONGS not seem possible that Sometimes when I am invited in to a home to discuss value, the potential seller will mention – Stars Raquel Bitton. This is an excellent these older people that the Zillow estimate or “Zestimate” is such and such. Usually that figure is off. biography. Please don’t miss seeing this. So can push themselves Zillow defines their “Zestimate” as this: enjoyable! Raquel Bitton does an outstanding to do these exercises. Please put it on your job telling Piaf’s story and singing. I cannot list to see. It is a story about resilience of the The Zestimate® home valuation is Zillow’s estimated market value, computed using a proprietary say enough about this video. If you cannot human spirit, even when sadness comes. You formula. It is not an appraisal. It is a starting point in determining a home’s value. The Zestimate find it, call me and I will see that you get it. will laugh, smile and shed a tear. is calculated from public and user-submitted data, taking into account special features, location, and market conditions. We encourage buyers, sellers, and homeowners to supplement Zillow’s THE BABE – John Goodman does an CHEAT YOU FAIR – I really like this information by doing other research such as: outstanding job playing the part of the one documentary. This is about the flea market • Getting a comparative market analysis (CMA) from a real estate agent and only Babe Ruth. I had never watched that started in the early 1900s in Chicago. • Getting an appraisal from a professional appraiser this movie and if you haven’t, you need to How many of the immigrants came from • Visiting the house (whenever possible) Source: Zillow’s website put it on your calendar. It is always good to Europe and other places and began selling. know more about some of the people in our They didn’t have the permits required like Ok let’s talk about the proprietary formula. It uses the tax info and zoning in some mysterious history. Be sure and watch this one. today. It is very interesting to see how business way (kind of like how they determine your taxes for the Mills Act!) to come up with your started and thrived through hard work. home’s value. So in that regard any home that is under the Mills Act is not able to be valued 800 WORDS – Season 1 & 2. George under the Zestimate formula because when you receive the Mills Act your zoning changes to Turner’s life is turned upside down when his Please remember, if you need to purchase Agricultural. And that throws them off. So if you are Historically Designated and have the wife dies. He has 2 children and decides to a film or make a copy of an event or wedding, Mills Act you will not see a Zestimate on line. leave Australia and move to New Zealand to please call my son, Guy, at 619-269-6998 Fortunately they encourage you to get a professional opinion, an appraisal or (gasp!) visit the start over. It’s a family story. You get to know or email him at kensingtonvideo.com. house! Yes those three words…visit the house. They do say whenever possible but I say every the community they live in and how they time! I do not understand how a proprietary formula can figure in location without physically pitch in to make it a better place. On June 30th, my brother, Bert Sullivan, in seeing the location! St. Louis celebrated his 100th birthday! See you AGE of CHAMPIONS – This is one next time, Winnie! n Determining property value can be a tricky thing. If you had the same identical home in two different locations in say, Kensington, you would more than likely have two different opinions of value. Location is a concern as is condition and factors like Mills Act cannot be ignored. I know they are trying to automate the process but let’s face it, some processes can’t be automated. Same theory applies when you are meeting an appraiser for a sale. There are items that need to be defined. An appraiser can’t just use comparable sales in a radius from the subject property. They need to see the location and condition before comparing it to others. So yes…follow Zillow’s advice. Get a market analysis from an experienced agent. Cheaper than an appraisal (free!) and definitely will be more accurate! 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AEROBIC CONDITIONING FOR THE ATHLETE AND CONDITIONED CLIENT by Martin Alonzo, CN, Personal Trainer CARDIORESPIRATORY AND AEROBIC mechanism for this adaptation without ADAPTATION CLARIFICATION the need for any treadmill, etc. Anaerobic Cardiorespiratory adaptations are often training on its own has been shown to develop misunderstood and confused with aerobic significant aerobic capacity to above average or endurance adaptations. Aerobic and levels, negating the notion that aerobics must endurance adaptations relate directly to the be done to achieve this. efficiency of oxygen dependent metabolism and are not the same as those produced FACT 3: A concentrated dose of high- by strength training. Cardiorespiratory intensity glycolytic type work lasting several adaptations affect the production of ATP minutes, utilizing exercises that incorporate (Adenosine triphosphate) generation for a full range of motion for a large amount of prolonged, low intensity exercise (the muscle mass, which produces significant 02 primary fuel source is fat as sugars would not desaturation and a high heart and respiration be able to be produced fast enough and fat response, has been shown to drive VO2 max creates a slower fuel source), (Paradoxically, improvements. this does not make you burn more fat, as it makes your metabolism slower to FACT 4: Exercise science research accommodate this prolonged activity with definitively shows that endurance training enough fuel). Maximum oxygen (VO2 max) directly interferes with and denatures all consumption is used as a measure of this parameters that athletes are concerned ability. The development of more efficient with developing (strength, speed, power). aerobic processes does not contribute to And, when done together (same training strength or power performance on any session/hour) the ability for improvement level. Exercise scientist trained in academic in both aerobic and anaerobic is blunted programs where aerobic exercise is the focus considerably. The reason: aerobic and will usually say that aerobic is necessary for anaerobic are two separate adaptations ALL athletes, despite the fact that many that compete for metabolic resources, studies have shown that aerobic training and both cannot be trained to a high actually interferes with maximum strength level simultaneously. Elite athletes still and power development and expression manage to excel in their sports despite this (Practical Programing for Strength and unnecessary and counterproductive training Conditioning, 3rd. edition). methodology, and not because of it.

MAJOR POINTS OF CONSIDERATION CONCLUSION FACT 1: Cardiorespiratory ‘fitness’ is Only deeply unhealthy and sedentary primarily a health issue of concern to the populations need to focus on aerobics medical community regarding the general conditioning. If your goal is to lose fat and public. Competitive athletes do not fall within gain muscle doing aerobics training for this this population-the fact is that competitive is a complete waste of time and metabolic athletes are not concerned with health, they resources. Also, it is scientifically proven are only concerned with winning. Also, to denature all aspects of muscle strength competitive athletics has already selected and athletics and metabolic efficiency. against individuals with below average levels Proper amounts of resistance training will of cardiorespiratory capacities. allow you to lose fat, gain strength and muscle size, and optimally condition you FACT 2: It is true that a degree of cardiorespiratory system. cardiorespiratory capacity is needed to more effectively recover from sets or workouts; Martin Alonzo is the owner of the supply oxygen and nutrients to the working Performance Training Center in muscles, and carry away metabolic waste Bankers Hill, San Diego. You can visit products-strength training in itself, by www.performcenter.com or email Martin’ providing this specific stress-provides the directly @ [email protected]. n

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7 this month: restaurant rave | recipe l SEAFOOD FAST FOOD (SORT OF…) by Mike Tristani the Wild Salmon with a couple of generous slabs of grilled zucchini and California Fish Grill…part of a “kaleslaw”. Both sides were perfectly California chain just opened up in prepared. The finish sauce options Mission Valley in the same strip mall include garlic butter, seasoned olive oil, as Men’s Wearhouse and Pier One cajun or chimichurri. The garlic butter Other entree options are tilapia, outdoor seating, pleasant decor and across from Mission Valley Center. was a favorite. Not too overwhelming catfish, trout, sea bass, giant shrimp, relatively fast service. After all, you do Usually these types of places are okay and just enough. My other entree visit swordfish…you get the picture…a lot want them to fresh grill your order! and good for a once or twice but I involved the Shrimp Skewers. Ten, yes of options! Grilled tacos, fried tacos, I’ll definitely swing by this place on have to say that after two visits, I’d go ten decent sized grilled shrimp with even some chicken thrown into the mix! occasion. For what you pay for a back. Because it is more casual…order the same finish sauces options. Entrees Starters also include ahi poke, breaded sandwich and a drink at some places, at the counter and get a beeper…it’s come with a slice of white bread. Odd shrimp, ceviche and New England this offers a healthy meal for only an more of a lunch place or very casual but not bad! I also tried the Parmesan Clam Chowder. The basic sides besides extra dollar or two. n dinner maybe after some shopping. Green Beans… a good substitute for the zucchini and kaleslaw are fries, rice, As with many of these seafood French Fries. The condiment bar is beans or chips and salsa. For another California Fish Frill is at restaurants the menu is abundant with complete with several additional sauces $1.50 you can “upgrade” to brussels 1530 Camino de la Reina and is entree selections, tacos, classic fried including New England tartar sauce sprouts, fire roasted street corn, garlic open from 11am to 9pm plates, salads and bowls. At $11-$13 right next to the “regular” tartar sauce fries, green salad or kale tabouleh. Sunday - Wednesday and until the entree plates are a good value and which looked like thinner version of Plenty of parking around. After 9:30 Thursday -Saturday. come with two sides. My visits entailed the New England one. all it is a strip mall! Indoor and www.cafishgrill.com FOOD, DINING…

TYLER FLORENCE THE ULTIMATE PAELLA DIRECTIONS: Combine the paprika and oregano in a small bowl. Rub the spice mix all over the chicken and marinate chicken for 1 hour in the refrigerator. Heat oil in a paella pan over medium- INGREDIENTS high heat. Saute the chorizo until browned, remove and reserve. Add chicken skin-side • 1 tablespoon sweet or smoked paprika down and brown on all sides, turning with tongs. Add salt and freshly ground pepper. • 2 teaspoons oregano Remove from pan and reserve. In the same pan, make a sofrito by sauteing the onions, • 1 (3 pound) frying chicken, cut into 10 pieces garlic, and parsley. Cook for 2 or 3 minutes on a medium heat. Then, add tomatoes and cook until the mixture caramelizes a bit and the flavors meld. Fold in the rice and stir-fry to coat the grains. Pour in water and simmer for 10 minutes, gently moving the pan around PAELLA: so the rice cooks evenly and absorbs the liquid. Add chicken, chorizo, and saffron. Add the • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil clams and shrimp, tucking them into the rice. The shrimp will take about 8 minutes to cook. Give the paella a good shake and let it simmer, without stirring, until the rice is al dente, for • 2 Spanish chorizo sausages, thickly sliced about 15 minutes. During the last 5 minutes of cooking, when the rice is filling the pan, add • Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper the lobster tails. When the paella is cooked and the rice looks fluffy and moist, turn the heat • 1 Spanish onion, diced up for 40 seconds until you can smell the rice toast at the bottom, then it’s perfect. Remove • 4 garlic cloves, crushed from heat and rest for 5 minutes. Garnish with peas, parsley and lemon wedges. • Bunch flat-leaf parsley leaves, chopped, Recipe courtesy of Tyler Florence reserve some for garnish • 1 (15-ounce) can whole tomatoes, drained and hand-crushed • 4 cups short grain Spanish rice • 6 cups water, warm • Generous pinch saffron threads • 1 dozen littleneck clams, scrubbed • 1 pound jumbo shrimp, peeled and de-veined • 2 lobster tails • 1/2 cup sweet peas, frozen and thawed • Lemon wedges, for serving

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8 this month: wine | food pairing | mix drink l & BEVERAGES ITALIAN FOOD AND WINE ALMOST AN AMERICAN TRADITION by John Crisafulli, with Piedmont’s Barolo or Barbaresco Village Vino Kensington wine finds. Both are built to handle high fat, high protein with full Over the years we have had guests flavors, powerful tannic structure, at Village Vino and at our events and incredible acidity. While many and tastings express their lack of are not cheap, they are perfect for knowledge or experience with Italian special occasions where the Italian wines, so their solution is to avoid meat dish is at the center of the plate. them when they are on a wine list. Pinot Grigio is Italy’s most popular Some of this apprehension is based white wine variety and for good on a bad Italian wine selection or reason. It highlights incredible acidity fear of the unknown. This all stops and makes for easy food pairings. today as we share the basics of Italian Perfect for seafood, an assortment of wines and demonstrate how they have appetizers and favorite poultry picks, become part of the fabric of the represent a unique “renegade” wine style family dinner, like many of Pinot Grigio is Italy’s predominant American food and wine scene. With that’s blended with Sangiovese and America’s Italian Family restaurants white wine. the numbers of Italian restaurants Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot (as and pizza shops. Table wines are Below are a few of our favorite and pizza joints dotting our American well as other Bordeaux varietals). often fruit-forward wines, some are selections to get you started at your landscape, there are surely Italian Alto Adige is an area tucked sparkling, most are light-medium next Italian dinner party or when wines to enjoy at the same tables. into the base of the Italian Alps, bodied and all carry an affinity for making pizza and flatbreads. Now locally dubbed the Dolomites. The regional Italian fare. with this short tutorial about Italian ITALY’S TOP WINE REGIONS wine region of Alto Adige has to be High-end Italian wines range in wines you can feel more comfortable Piedmont sits high and tight in home to the world’s most stunning quality designations, from good to making them part of your new Italy’s northwest corner. Home to vineyard views. White wines are most superior. With over 2000 native American Tradition and at your some heavy duty red wines and the famous in this wine growing region grape varieties covering varied terrain, dinner table. ever popular, light-hearted bubbles with Pinot Grigio being the most growing in forgiving climates, you of Moscato, this particular Italian predominant varietal. Cool, crisp can imagine that the resulting wine 2015 Ceraudo Pecorello, Calabria wine region is dominated by three nights and warm sunny days allow combinations would be just as diverse 2016 Terenzuola Vermentino Colli di Luna key grapes: Barbera, Nebbiolo, and for impressive temperature changes as the subcultures that surround 2015 Terenzuola Vermentino Nero Dolcetto. The highly concentrated, between day and night and give rise them. Super Tuscans, Barolo, 2009 Ottoventi Nerello Mascalese, Sicily ultra-dry red wines of Barolo and to excellent acidity in the grapes. Barbaresco, Chianti Classico Riserva, 2012 Brezza, Barolo Barbaresco (named for the towns and Amarone will lean towards the 2014 Castello di Verduno, Barbaresco their grown around) are both built on PAIRING FOOD WITH higher price points. 2015 Masseria Furfante, the late-ripening grape of Nebbiolo. ITALIAN WINES The wine to pair with everything Bombino Bianco, Sicily Tuscany is picturesque Italy with To simplify the options, you can from spaghetti and meatballs to 2015 Ka Mancine, rolling hillsides, medieval castles, divide Italian wines into two main backyard BBQ fare is Chianti. Or Rossese Di Dolceacqua Galeae, Liguria walled cities, and endless vineyards. categories: Table Wines and High- consider Dolcetto d’Alba as another Tuscany’s wines are based on the end selections. Italy’s table wines tend solid red table wine that is made 2014 ‘Askos’ Susumaniello, Salento, Puglia Sangiovese grape, bottled as Chianti, to be less expensive red or white wines for Italian fare. If you are looking 2014 Selvapiana, Chianti Classico and come in various levels of that are produced to be consumed in to crank on some steak or other 2015 Casanova Di Neri, quality and price. Super Tuscans the casual atmosphere of an Italian- heavy red meat, then take a turn Brunello di Montalcino FALL IS ALMOST HERE! LET’S TRY SOME HARD CIDER! ORIGINAL SIN WÖLFFER HARD CIDER NO. 139 This New York City-based craft DRY cider is made using freshly pressed ROSÉ apples from upstate New York, and CIDER it’s naturally gluten-free. We love its Made apricot, elderberry, and pear ciders, exclusively from New but we’re partial to the bite of the York state super crisp original blend. apples, this light and crisp cider has a gorgeous blush pink JACK’S HARD hue and a CIDER delicate, floral, slightly tart taste. You’ll want to Produced at a winery sip this all season long, as it’s super refreshing THE VESPER near Gettysburg, and versatile enough for any occasion. Pay tribute to 007 by mixing up his signature Vesper Pennsylvania, Jack’s cocktail. The drink first appeared in Ian Fleming’s Hard Cider is made 1953 novel Casino Royale when Bond asked for “Three using apples grown measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of on the estate and Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add pressed on-site. From a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?” the harvesting to the fermentation process, FEATUREDINGREDIENTS COCKTAIL it doesn’t get more • 3 oz Plymouth gin Garnish: 1 Lemon peel local and hands-on • 1 oz Absolut Vodka Glass: Cocktail than Jack’s. • ½ oz Lillet Blanc

PREPARATION REKORDERLIG PREMIUM Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill PEAR CIDER with ice. Stir, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. This cider from Swedish brand Rekorderlig is Twist a slice of lemon peel over the drink, rub along bursting with the flavor of ripe, juicy pears with the rim of the glass and drop it in. just a touch of tartness. Serve it over ice with a squeeze of fresh lemon, and get ready to ring in Courtesy of liquor.com the taste of fall.

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byARE Mary Schmich COMINGuniversal human goal, and in the hierarchy of laundry’s purported torments—washing, drying, once asked a 100-year-old woman to name the folding—the last is presumed to be the worst, the greatest innovation of her lifetime and without one that until the robot revolution of 2017 has I skipping a beat she said, “The electric washing eluded technology. machine.” But before our new robot buddies cause our If she were alive today, she might have said, “The folding skills to atrophy, just like calculators have laundry-folding robot.” ruined our ability to do arithmetic, I’d like to take a Laundry-folding robots are marching our way. moment to praise the ancient art of laundry folding. shorts, tucking the sleeves of a T-shirt in just so, As reported in The New York Times, at least two For some people, laundry is therapy. leaves the mind free to roam. Some people call that companies plan to bring the laundry wizards to the I have a relative who struggles with anxiety and boring. I call it freeing. international market by the end of this year. depression and when things are going wrong, she The accomplishment, though short-lived, is One of the devices, invented in Japan, is called knows what to do—laundry. tangible and visible. No fact-checking, no argument, Laundroid. The other, developed in Israel by an Laundry gives shape and purpose to her time, and no study required. American company, is FoldiMate, which bills itself it offers a beautiful reward at the end, a stack of clean Some people feel the same way about washing as “your laundry-folding friend.” clothes, sheets and towels, evidence that the world dishes, a chore that rivals laundry for most despised. Ahoy, FoldiMate! Can you match my socks too? can be made fresh, that she can get things done. In fact, self-help articles have been written about the Thanks, pal. The folding is her favorite part. The smoothing “Zen” of dishwashing. Liberation from laundry is presumed to be a out, the lining up of edges, the stacking of underwear Wash the dishes just to wash the dishes. Notice with underwear, shirts with shirts. When she’s every plate and bowl. The work is the reward. There doing laundry, she’s in charge of life. is no hurry. Whenever I go to visit her, she demands to But most of us are in a hurry, a reflexive, habitual, do my laundry and always returns it to me cultural hurry, which is why the laundry-folding folded and stacked with military precision, robots will find a market. which makes both of us very happy. The FoldiMate website brags that the robot, with I know another woman who after her husband a potential price of $700-850, will take a mere 2.5 died found her greatest comfort down in the minutes to fold an average laundry load of 25 items, a basement laundry room, washing and drying, task that would take a super-fast human four minutes. ironing and folding. The warmth and the whirr That means we humans would have another minute made the little room a retreat. The familiar neat and a half per laundry load to spend on Facebook. piles when she was done seemed to turn the upside- One day we may look back on folding laundry down world upright, if only for a while. the way we do on scrubbing clothes on rocks I’m not as ardent a laundry folder as those two down by the river. Were we ever forced to do such are, and I’m grateful when someone does it for primitive labor? me. There are days when my washed clothes sit But I’m guessing that I’ll keep on folding the laundry in the basket unfolded until the wrinkles have just to fold the laundry. Unless one of those machines practically calcified. can perform a feat I’ve never mastered, which is to fold n But when I do get to folding, it calms me a fitted sheet in a truly satisfying way. down. Like anything done consciously and carefully, it’s meditative. ©2017 Chicago Tribune

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By Lynn O’Rourke Hayes wild horses. Kayak, fish and hike dunes, tidal flats, prairies and 70 INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE FamilyTravel.com by day. Enjoy the bounty of stars miles of coastline. Home to more visible from your family’s campsite. than 380 species of birds, the park f you and your family are (No other lodging is available on also provides a safe haven for Kemp’s yearning for a seaside holiday, the island.) A 30-minute, daily ridley sea turtles. Hatchling releases, I these coastal national parks may dockside program offers insight often open to the public, occur from fit the bill. Here are five to consider: into the island’s history, culture and mid-June through August. Ranger- ecosystem. Other lengthier tours are led interpretive programs broaden 1. OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, also possible. Check the website the experience with walks and PORT ANGELES, WASH. for times and availability. Contact: talks and birding tours. Contact: Brimming with thousands of www.nps.gov/cuis www.nps.gov/pais years of human history, your family can contemplate the complexity of 3. VIRGIN ISLANDS NATIONAL 5. INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL the natural world amid lush rain PARK, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS LAKESHORE, PORTER, IND. forests, glacier-capped mountains Explore the underwater world via Geocaching is a favorite activity CUMBERLAND ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE and richly hued, seaside tide pools. a 225-yard trail where snorkelers are of families who choose to explore There are wild animals to observe, treated to a signed introduction to this 15,000-acre Midwestern trails to hike, rivers to fish and more the region’s fish and marine life. lakeshore. Be on the lookout for the than 70 miles of untamed coastline While 40 percent of the park is under rare Karner blue butterfly. Climb to explore. Rangers are in residence the water’s surface, there is plenty to over dunes, along rivers and through to provide input during interpretive do on land. Stroll the beaches, hike wetlands as you choose from 50 walks, campfire programs and to or tap into the region’s history at the miles of meandering trails. Take help decode the starry sky. Stay in visitors center. the Succession trail to the top of the park lodge, in cabins or pitch Ranger led programs include a dune for a view of the Chicago a tent in your own campsite. Built bird watching, hiking, yoga on skyline. Kayak via the Lake Michigan in 1953, Kalaloch Lodge is the the beach, lionfish safaris and sky Water Trail or claim your spot along only coastal lodging in the park. watching. Inside the park, resort the 15-mile stretch of sandy beach. Contact: www.nps.gov/olym; lodging and camping are available. Contact: www.nps.gov/indu. n PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE www.thekalalochlodge.com An extensive array of possibilities are available outside park boundaries. (Lynn O’Rourke Hayes 2. CUMBERLAND ISLAND Contact: www.nps.gov/viis; (www.LOHayes.com) is an author, NATIONAL SEASHORE, www.CaneelBay.com. family travel expert and enthusiastic ST. MARYS, GA. explorer. Gather more travel intel on Bypass the crowds and head for 4. PADRE ISLAND Twitter @lohayes, Facebook, or via Georgia’s largest and southernmost NATIONAL SEASHORE, FamilyTravel.com) barrier island. Pristine beaches, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS mud flats, dune fields and salt This park protects the longest marshes provide respite for shore stretch of undeveloped barrier island © 2017 Distributed by Tribune birds, sea turtles, wild turkeys and in the world, a landscape that includes Content Agency, LLC. WHEN YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING IN METRO REAL ESTATE, CALL MIKE TRISTANI! 619-501-4000

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