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On May 16, 2009, prolific writer and historian David McCullough will speak at the 87th Eastern Nazarene College commencement exercises. The event begins at 2:30 p.m. and is held on the college's front lawn. About 200 graduates will be receiving associate's, bachelor's, or master's degrees.
McCullough, author of the bestselling 1776, is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the National Book Award. He has been called a "master of the art of narrative history." His books have been praised for their exceptional narrative sweep, their scholarship and insight into American life, and for their literary distinction.
His latest book, 1776, has been called "brilliant," lucid," "gripping," "a masterpiece," "a classic," and "a continuing national triumph" since its publication in June 2005. McCullough's previous work, John Adams, remains one of the most critically acclaimed and widely read American biographies of all time. There are three million copies in print, and it was made into an Emmy-award winning HBO miniseries.
Mr. McCullough's other books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, The Path between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, Brave Companions, and Truman. His work has been published in 10 languages and, in all, nearly 9,000,000 copies are in print. As may be said of few writers, none of his books has ever been out of print.
David McCullough is as well twice winner of the prestigious Francis Parkman Prize, and for his work overall he has been honored by the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award and the National Humanities Medal. He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Letters and has received more than 40 honorary degrees. In 2006 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.
In a productive career, he has been an editor, essayist, teacher, lecturer, and familiar presence on public television – as host of Smithsonian World, The American Experience, and narrator of numerous documentaries including The Civil War. His is also the narrator's voice in the movie Seabiscuit.
A gifted speaker, Mr. McCullough has lectured in all parts of the country and abroad, as well as at the White House. He is one of the few private citizens to speak before a joint session of Congress.
Born in Pittsburgh, Mr. McCullough was educated there and at Yale, where he was graduated with honors in English literature. He is an avid reader, traveler, and has enjoyed a lifelong interest in art and architecture. He is as well a devoted painter. Mr. McCullough and his wife Rosalee Barnes McCullough have five children and 18 grandchildren.
His current project is a book about Americans in Paris, from the 1830's to 1930's.


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Two of central Pennsylvania's premiere music ensembles combine forces for a moving afternoon of music on Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 4:00pm in the Gettysburg Seminary chapel. The Metta Ensemble, a chamber orchestra directed by Dr. Alexander Kahn, and the Schola Cantorum, a chamber choir directed by Dr. Stephen Folkemer, will come together for a performance of Franz Josef Haydn's Mass in the Time of War. The concert is jointly sponsored by the Music, Gettysburg! concert series and the Gettysburg College Sesquicentennial Committee in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Preceding the Mass a work for a cappella choir, directed by Dr. Folkemer, and Haydn's Symphony No. 100, "Military," directed by Dr. Kahn will be presented. Program soloists include Margaret Folkemer, Soprano Soloist; Sarah Erikkson, Mezzo-Soprano Soloist; Andrew Rosenfeld, Tenor Soloist and Matthew Osifchin, Baritone Soloist.
The Metta Ensemble is a 21-member orchestral group created and directed by Alexander Kahn of the Gettysburg College Sunderman Conservatory of Music. Metta includes professional musicians from across Pennsylvania and Maryland, as well as students from the Conservatory. It takes its name, "Metta," from a Pali word that can be translated as loving-kindness, benevolence or good will. In the Buddhist tradition "metta" is seen as one of the four sublime states, or divine abodes. Cultivating good will towards all living beings is a key element of Buddhism; the goal of the Metta Ensemble to choose music and perform it in a fashion that has the power to create good will towards others in both its ensemble members and its audiences.
Alexander Kahn is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activities at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. He conducts the 70-piece Gettysburg College Symphony Orchestra and teaches courses in Music History and Conducting. Previous university-level orchestras with whom Alexander has worked include the UC-Berkeley Chamber Orchestra (Founder and Music Director) and the UC Berkeley Symphony (Assistant Conductor). In addition to his position at Gettysburg College, Kahn has worked with professional orchestras across the United States and throughout Europe. He currently serves as Cover Conductor for the Baltimore Symphony and as Staff and Assistant Conductor for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. Recent guest conducting engagements have included the Latoshinsky Orchestra in Kiev, Ukraine, and the Salzburg Soloists of Salzburg, Austria.
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Policy Statement on Global Warming
The issue of global warming has become a topic of heated debate in the political and Christian communities in recent decades. It is a complex issue that sits at the very heart of the dispute between diverging environmental policies. Various groups are taking different approaches to this issue, and while all the groups agree that a warming trend is occurring, they disagree on its causes. Some conclude that global warming is primarily the result of manmade causes, while others believe that global warming is merely a phase through which our planet is going. The time has come for Christians to engage this issue, and, in order to do so in a responsible manner, they must be informed by a biblical worldview.
An understanding of God's intended relationship between humanity and the natural world is the starting point for a Christian response to the issue of global warming. Genesis 2:15 reveals the biblical model of environmental stewardship by declaring that God put man in the Garden of Eden to "work it and take care of it." This makes clear that God calls Christians to be stewards of the natural environment by both caring for and using what God has graciously given. Also, Jesus gives a clear biblical example of stewardship in His "Parable of the Talents" (Matt. 25:14-28). In this parable, the master praises his servants for their wise use of the resources entrusted to them. However, one servant was unwise in his use, and he was scolded harshly by the master. In this parable, Jesus provides a clear principle of good stewardship: a good steward is one who puts to good use what has been provided to him.
Good stewardship is about more than using resources, though; it also involves caring for those resources. This added dimension of stewardship is based in the goodness of God's creation and the belief that God is the owner and giver of all. The very fact that God created the world gives it great value and demands our care. When He finished His creation, God called it "very good" (Gen. 1:31). David reaffirms God's declaration when he proclaims, "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it" (Ps. 24:1). Consequently, while man exercises considerable freedom in his use of creation, he is not free to abuse it, since God is the ultimate owner and ruler. Therefore, the desire to care for creation must be derived from an understanding of the intrinsic value of creation and its relationship to the Creator.
While it is clear that God demands proper stewardship of His creation, many have championed distorted views of this reality. Some have advocated using nature without any reservations, leading to environmental destruction. This is an anthropocentric way to view the world, focusing on what will most benefit man and making man the center of the universe rather than God. The other extreme view puts heavy emphasis on caring for the environment while downplaying or limiting its use for the good of man. This is a pantheistic view of the world, putting nature at the center of the universe rather than God. Neither is a proper biblical view of the environment. God demands that His people both care for and use what He has given. It is this balance between care and use that should drive Christian environmental policies, because any alternate view is distinctly unbiblical and unchristian.
One must use this proper view of environmental stewardship to address the subject of global warming. No one refutes that the planet is currently experiencing a warming trend. Many do, however, dispute its causes. The popular view among many politicians, the news media, and scientists is that global warming is being caused by the release of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere by pollution and the burning of fossil fuels. Once in the atmosphere, many scientists have declared, these CO2 gases act as "greenhouse gases," retaining heat inside the earth's atmosphere. They conjecture that this has led and will lead to increased temperatures over a period of time, eventually changing the climate of the earth. If true, this could have disastrous effects on the earth's environment, oceans, wildlife, plant life, and economic system.
Because of these projected results, global warming has become a hot-button topic in environmental politics in the past couple decades, and there is increasing pressure from interest groups and European countries for the United States to take a strong position on this issue. In conjunction with the belief of manmade global warming, the Kyoto Protocol was put forth by the United Nations in 1997 to curb greenhouse gases and attempt to limit global warming throughout the world. The Kyoto Protocol targets the largest producers of carbon emissions in the world, asking them to sign on and agree to reduce greenhouse gases. Many European nations have agreed to this international treaty in recent years, but the United States has not, which consequently has led to constant pressure both nationally and internationally. Multiple national, international, and Christian groups have also made statements and signed documents encouraging the United States to take specific action on global warming. Despite political, religious, and national pressure, the United States, thousands of scientists, think tanks, interest groups, and religious institutions (like the Southern Baptist Convention) have refused to adopt parts or all of the manmade global warming theory and the proposed Kyoto Protocol because of multiple flaws, scientific unknowns, and potential economic problems.
Global warming is a very complicated subject and the Kyoto Protocol has complicated processes that could lead to complex results. However, there are some basic flaws and concerns with both the idea and premise of manmade global warming and the functionality of the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol's policies insist that industrialized nations are the primary factor in the increased carbon emissions in the environment and the ensuing "greenhouse effect" which will increase temperatures and affect climate change. However, there are several factors that do not explicitly point to humans as being the primary factors in the greenhouse effect and the warming of the earth. In the twentieth century alone data show periods of warming and cooling that seem to be unaffected by human pollution. From 1900 to 1940 there was a strong pattern of warming of the earth's surface temperature, and then from 1940 to the late 1970s, after a significant increase in greenhouse gas production from factories and automobiles, a slight cooling trend was seen. And now from the 1970s to the present another warming trend is occurring1. This points to a more cyclical pattern of warming and cooling rather than a consistently increasing warming pattern caused exclusively by man, as advocates of the manmade global warming theory would have people believe.
Overall the scientific data is simply not conclusive enough concerning the human effect on climate change to take rash action on limiting carbon emissions. In fact, tens of thousands of scientists agree that there is no conclusive evidence for the manmade global warming theory2. Records prove that climates have changed in the past without human interaction, and most of the computer models that predict severe climate change are extrapolated from a very short span of data and use models and analysis that predict an ever-increasing temperature. Also, most models are based on surface temperature, but the real results should be developed from readings of atmospheric temperature. Scientists have weather balloon data dating back to 1957 and satellite data beginning in 1979, and both point to no significant warming trend. It has also been proven that a variety of physical, non-human factors can affect the extended rising and falling of temperatures. The El Niño effect in the Pacific Ocean (which is a common natural occurrence that warms the ocean temperatures and, in turn, the air) that was present in 1997 and 1998 and caused a natural warming during those years is one such non-human factor.
This El Niño effect led to increased temperatures in the late 1990s, and these temperature increases are often used to point to manmade global warming, without events such as El Niño being mentioned. It is true that man has played a significant role in the increased carbon emissions in the atmosphere. However, natural events such as El Niño create further uncertainties about the extent to which man has contributed to the global warming phenomenon.
Therefore, the most rational action to take would be to not blindly accept inconclusive evidence as pure fact and act irrationally upon it. Yet, the Kyoto Protocol does exactly this. It calls for extensive and expensive cuts in carbon emissions by those countries that produce the most carbon emissions, but since it does not target most of the developing world, the Protocol would have little effect on the global environment while causing enormous financial strain on world economies. According to popular extrapolated models (which have been proven to have biases3), global warming is supposed to increase the average temperature about 1 degree Centigrade by 2050, and, if Kyoto is put in place during that same time period, the difference between no action and the actions of Kyoto will be six hundredths of a degree (0.06), which is an environmental non-factor4. But, while it would impact the climate change to a nearly statistically insignificant number, Kyoto would have disastrous effects on the economy, as the estimated cost in implementing Kyoto would be between $100 billion and $400 billion5.
Beyond the overall cost of Kyoto, it is fatally flawed in its design. Since Kyoto is not targeting the developing world, most industries, instead of facing the environmental restrictions, would probably relocate to a less-restrictive, developing country. And, because of struggling governments with no ability to regulate environmental policies, the output of carbon emissions from those particular countries would likely increase over current emission numbers. These developing countries are also predicted to have the largest increase in carbon emissions in the near future, as they begin to rely more heavily on automobiles, industry, and technology. Thus, without regulating their carbon emissions, the regulation of the developed world through Kyoto would go for naught.
The Kyoto Protocol simply cannot be supported. It would cause incredible amounts of lost jobs (the Heartland Institute estimates 2.4 million jobs would be lost6), lead to increased poverty, and perpetuate a crippled American economy for a cause that will not be universally applied and will have little impact on the global climate.
After analyzing all the studies and information, it is clear that global warming is a complex issue without definitive answers. It is indisputable that humans have played a role in increased carbon emissions, and because of this, government and the people should constantly focus on trimming the rate and amount of carbon emissions, thereby producing cleaner air. Humanity and governments should take precautions to decrease carbon emissions and increase environmentally-friendly technology without crippling the world economy and causing an even greater poverty epidemic than already exists. One way to do this would be to decrease the amount and the concentration of carbon emissions without limiting them entirely. This would allow technology and industry to grow, while resulting in a reduction in carbon released into the atmosphere. This type of measure is in agreement with the action taken and principles stated by the United States in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development in July of 2005.
While humanity is responsible for increased carbon emissions and should take results-oriented action, there is no conclusive evidence that a current warming trend is solely or even primarily due to human factors. Many factors impact climate change, and as recently as the mid-twentieth century there was a cooling trend even while human carbon emissions were unchecked. In fact, recent numbers have been inflated because of the El-Niño phenomenon. To base an entire global warming "world crisis" on the extrapolation of data from a short time period into decades and centuries of supposed increased warming using a hypothetical computer model is neither prudent nor effective. There may be a current warming trend on the earth, and humans probably have played a role in causing this trend. However, the degree of warming is not proven and the extent of man's role has not been pinpointed. Thus, to take rash action, crippling economies and forcing families out of jobs over a phenomenon that could be largely impacted by weather patterns and cyclical warming and cooling trends in the oceans and natural environment, is both irrational and imprudent. Thus, continued research is vital to more clearly understand the root problems of potential climate change and discover if this is a problem which particularly impacts the current generation because of environmental disregard, if it is part of a large scope of warming and cooling patterns throughout history, or if it is simply an environmental non-issue.
The Christian view on global warming needs to be based on theology and reason, and this position on global warming has been developed under these guidelines. God has given man a biblical requirement for stewardship (Gen. 2:15), which means that humans should both use and care for the environment. Devaluing the use and overemphasizing the care for the environment is not a proper biblical practice and neither is the opposite. Biblical stewardship demands a dual relationship between use and care in order to develop industry and protect against abuse. In the current global warming debate there are simply not enough facts to mandate an extreme limiting of the use of natural resources to guard against "abuse" that only has hypothetical consequences and goes against the informed opinions of thousands of knowledgeable scientists and climatologists.
1 Sallie Baliunas, "Warming Up to the Truth: The Real Story About Climate Change," The Heritage Foundation (22 August 2002)
2 "Instant Expert Guide: Global Warming," The Heartland Institute (Chicago: Heartland, 1999), 7.
3 Pat Michaels, "Review of the 2001 U. S. Climate Action Report," Cato Institute 3 June 2002, 2.
4 Ibid., 52.
5 Ibid., 56.
6 "Instant Expert Guide: Global Warming," The Heartland Institute, 5.
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1 On Oct 7, 2007, at 8:16pm, Dan wrote:
Enjoy your 80F summer. You could have taken the lead in acting. I can not think of an issue of greater global significance, and this document serves as testament to your foot dragging.
2 On Nov 9, 2007, at 2:12am, Chris wrote:
I have no issue with applying to God for guidance on difficult questions. Yet this statement hinges on the facts supplied by the secular authorities listed in the footnotes. The Heritage Foundation, The Cato Institute and the Heartland Institute have been linked to conservative politics, big tobacco and energy companies like Exxon. They are not the only or the best places to look for facts about global warming. Far better and less partisan sources would be The National Academy of Science, The American Meteorological Society or the American Geophysical Union. These are societies composed of actual scientists. Since these sources are not referenced, it is clear that the inspiration for this statement is neither God nor honest science.
3 On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:27pm, Ken McSwain wrote:
While your article is thoughful, it misses a few key considerations.
1. How do we know that our present temperature is the ideal one, and not one a degree cooler or warmer?
2. If the temperature is in such perfect balance, who do you credit for making it pefect and self-correcting?
3. How do you propose we deal with the Golbal Cooling which has already begun to occur? The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets have returned.
4 On Mar 11, 2008, at 3:42am, James in Florida wrote:
By the SBC official statement admitting that they now accept the 'global warming whacko's' premise that the world temperature has risen is frightening! I have been a Southern Baptist for thirty years. And I am now seriously contemplating changing denominations! This is something I thought I'd never do. It is bad enough my daughter is subjected to environmentalist propaganda at her public elementary, I at college, my wife at work, and now I have to worry about taking my family to church to be indoctrinated? NO SIR!
5 On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:44pm, Mary in FL wrote:
I am a member of the Family Research Council and learned of the SBC's new stance on global warming in a daily e-mail I receive from them. I was apalled and in disbelief so I came to your website to see for myself. I agree with James'in Florida statements to you concerning this matter. My family,too, have been Southern Baptist for many many years. I am only glad the SBC is not a dictatorship and individual churches can decide for themselves what to teach concerning this issue. But this does shine a bad light on the denomination as a whole. Please reconsider this blunder and issue a retraction.
6 On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:06pm, Jason wrote:
Unfortunately, this has been coming for quite some time. This is not about global warming or being responsible with the environment. This is an issue of man elevating himself to GOD-like status. Friends, this notion started when the SBC decided to shift itself away from the doctrine of election(IMO: to draw in charismatics and other Armenians). As a former Southern Baptist, I will say it is more obvious when you're on the outside looking in. I still consider many baptist to be friends and family but I can no longer embrace a denomination that is more concerned about comfort, wealth and preservation than passionate, deliberate Christian sacrifice. Tell me, how arrogant is it to assume that my own personal actions could destroy a planet created by almighty God?
7 On Mar 14, 2008, at 11:55pm, Richard wrote:
I appreciate that the author feels he has to go out of his way to appear "maimstream" since the press considers anybody a fool for not believing in evolution, global warming,etc. That said the SBC should and has to stand up against this new religion. This is a secular idea that man will can subvert the will of God. The bible is fairly clear about the end of the world, and global warming is not the cause. No one said it would be easy to follow Christ and stand up for the Truth.
8 On May 11, 2008, at 11:45pm, Karl Bullock wrote:
In the debate over global warming, it is important to remember one fact: This is not a debate about the environment. It is a debate about control. Once again an elite few want to dictate to the rest of us, and as "evidence" they give us demonstrably false data, questionable conclusions, and doomsday predictions. Unfortunately, many have fallen for the trap, and we can only hope the truth will triumph. In the meantime, SBC, let's not be politically correct this time, OK?
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Name: Dayana
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Size: 620 square feet
Years lived in: 4
Dayana's apartment in Alexandria may look traditional from the outside of the building, but come on inside and you find a style that's not traditional at all. The beige brick and cobblestone sidewalk belie the eclectic wonders inside, such as the many doll parts, the orange chandeliers, and the pillows with rhinestone cross skull appliqués. Venture through the rabbit hole to find a home worthy of Lewis Carroll's imagination.
Dayana bought her condo four years ago, and has been collecting and rearranging goods ever since. Last summer, when she realized it was the once-a-year trash pick-up day in Alexandria where one could put anything out on the sidewalk for the garbage trucks, she and a friend drove around with flashlights, searching for the unwanted gems. (She found a wonderful set of unglazed, unpainted ceramic vases, among other things.)
She also rearranges on a seasonal basis— the heart drawing on the chalkboard was for Valentine's Day. And in the summer, she rolls up the layered black-and-white carpets on her wood floor.
Dayana has such as eye for finding the odd trinket and making it beautiful, that friends have asked her to come over and help them rearrange or cast a vision for their homes. They may not want the hand molds she retrieved from a glove-making factory, but they want her eye.
Her home has also been spotted on HGTV's Small Space, Big Style.
Apartment Therapy Survey:
My style:
Freestyle-bohemian-Mod-macabre mash-up (with a nod to farmland punk and the Old Country) anchored by curbside and Craigslist cast-offs and modern-day comfort splurges, featuring a rotating assembly of half-assed crafts, bandmates and fine family art. Or, Bubbe chic with an edge.
Brilliant retail window displays, Anthropologie (everything they do, but particularly the sets they build for catalog shoots and the wacky fantasy stuff they do for in-store installations, like the giant chicken-wire bird with feathers made from old book pages), U.K. décor pubs, such as Living Etc., and Elle Décor U.K., Apartment Therapy House Tours (particularly the offhand vignettes people create in their spaces), WPA-era art, OCD Craigslist searches, a pile of stuff no one's yet picked over at Ruff & Ready in D.C.
Favorite Element:
The light. No, the art. Or the black floor. Wait … the dog. Definitely the dog. Okay: the artful way the dog's nails are adding "character" to the painstakingly varnished black floor—when the light hits it just right.
Biggest Challenge:
Arranging the living room furniture. It's a tough room— the fireplace is off-center and there's a wall that juts out in the exact spot you'd want to put the couch or a chair. Every couple of months I attempt a new arrangement then end up moving everything back to where it was in the first place.
What Friends Say:
"What the …?" Or, "Let's hang out at your place. But put away that baby doll head."
Biggest Embarrassment:
Renovation-wise: Kitchen sink placement. There's no counter space between the sink and the stove. Oops. My bad. (Simple solution: Putting the wood cutting board across the sink.)
Décor-design-wise: The abandoned projects, i.e., the half-finished tack design on the dining table, the wooden beads strung on just one of the kitchen chandeliers (a much bigger PITA than anticipated), the remnants of a failed glue-gun reupholstering attempt along the arm of one of the green wing back chairs.
Proudest DIY:
The renovation was hardly DIY (although I did chip away the plaster to expose the brick wall on my own!). But I'm proud of what I came up with on graph paper—reconfiguring the entire layout, opening walls, moving doorways, turning a hallway into a closet, ripping out dry-walled-in ducts, working around the HVAC and pipes plopped in the center of the place. All with only one rookie mistake. (See "Biggest Embarrassment" above.) My contractor then took my amateur blueprint and brought it to life.
Biggest Indulgence:
My couch from Red Barn Mercantile. First, a bit of background: I have a long and storied history of purchasing style-rich/comfort-poor couches. The museum of misfit sofas is documented on TV (the scratchy houndstooth sleeper featured on Small Space, Big Style), online, (the short-lived Knoll impulse purchase from Eastern Market) and in my basement storage (the back-breaker Moroccan day bed I'm saving for the screened-in porch of the home I'm never going to be able to afford). And that's only the last three. There have been more, may they RIP.
I thought I'd never find The One… and then one day I walked into Red Barn Mercantile in Old Town and sat on a Cisco Brothers sofa. Game over. I was finally ready to shell out grown-up money for a grown-up piece of furniture. Given the commitment, I wanted everything to be perfect, so I tweaked the design of the Catalina love seat—nixing the rolled arms, going with a bench cushion instead of separate seat cushions, adjusting leg height and style. Because it's manufactured in the U.S. with eco-kosher wood, soy-based earth-friendly stuffing and upholstered in hemp, I'm pretty sure that I've canceled out my carbon footprint for at least a couple of months.
Best advice:
"So what if there's a wall there now. Make it a doorway." That's what a friend said to me when I was struggling to come up with the best layout for the place. Basically, the advice is this: Go nuts (on paper) as if you have no design constraints. Free your mind to consider any and every possibility. (And not just when you're tackling big projects, either: Why not use shelf liner as a fluted glass substitute on the bookcase doors? Broken bass amp? Could be a great coffee table base.) When you come back down to earth you'll likely have a few new ideas to explore—ones you wouldn't have considered if you hadn't let yourself imagine a wall as a doorway. Of course, before you wave your magic sledgehammer for real, remember to consider things like budget, gravity, re-sale, and whether or not that's a load-bearing wall.
Dream source:
Kelley Wearstler's cast-offs, Evolution in SoHo, Paris flea markets. And a shopping excursion with Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie buyers, and anything designed by/touched/glanced at by Tom Ford.
Resources of Note:
Desk: Craigslist (handmade by a guy's grandfather)
Bookcase: the long-gone secondhand store, Cielo
Mirrors (top to bottom): church sale, Look Again Resale Shop in Old
Town, GoodWood in D.C.
Ceiling fixture: Chinoiserie in Old Town
Peacock wall sculpture: Assembled from four separate peacocks from eBay; spray-painted and held together with white zip ties.
Black pleather woven rug: Overstock.com
Curtains: Tablecloths from Bed, Bath & Beyond
Shelves: Ikea; microwave shelf from a restaurant supply store while
shopping for theater props
Coral chandeliers: Lowe's, originally silver and then painted "safety orange" (unintentionally) and toned down with a light coat of red craft paint
Metal backsplash/wall tiles: Miles Kimball
Drop-leaf table: Ikea (dressed up with nailhead trim to be completed after I get more tacks)
Chairs: vintage Stakmore folding chairs (set of four plus card table in my basement) from Look Again Resale (snagged 15 minutes after they were dropped off)
Sofa: Red Barn Mercantile
White stool: the "Spool Stool" from House Eclectic
Wing chairs: $50 for the pair on Craigslist
Tulip table: Eastern Market
Metal lamp: Mt. Vernon Antique Center
Bench/ottomans: Crate & Barrel Outlet in Alexandria, Va.
Coffee table: Base from Look Again; glass from Pier One Imports
Console/entertainment/buffett: Church sale (painted it white)
Lucite fireplace tools: eBay
Metal pedestal table: Marshall's
Fireplace mantel: Brass Knob Warehouse
Rugs: Cowhide from Ikea, black ground from Urban Outfitters
Picture frames: Large pieces framed at the Principle Gallery. Most of the black frames are from Ikea fitted with custom mats from the Principle Gallery.
Pillows: Black/white birds from Ikea; Skull pillows,covers from Crate & Barrel Outlet and stud skull iron-ons from Michaels
Bed frame: Eastern Market (via a friend who purchased it originally)
Storage bench: House Eclectic
Hanging lamp: Shade from Urban Outfitters, lined with parchment paper
Hands: Flea markets, thrift stores.
Hardware: Entryway closet globe doorknobs from Anthropologie; small glass globe knobs on desk and French doors from Restoration Hardware; kitchen cabinet knobs from Ikea
Thanks, Dayana!
Images: Lindsey Roberts
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63 Comments
Wow - One of the best/most interesting/detailed house tours I've seen on AT in a long, long time!
The home & occupant depicted as well as the writing are quite engaging - Kudos!
me likey!
I love your mix with red! The red chandeliers add a lot to the mix and really makes the main room special. Your mixed art wall with all black frames reminded me of Domino magazine when they ran an article on making a wall unique using small pieces of art together for a greater impact. Click below if you would like to see their unique wall design!
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Your brain confuses me. I have as hard a time reading and understanding this post as I do understanding your condo. Kudos!
wow! i never thought that so much stuff could look so good! love it!
This place is genius. Every photo is full of surprising/inspiring detail. It's not that I want to copy any one thing exactly--but my imagination is sparked by this space. There is a feeling of looseness & mutability in the arrangement. Almost as though things just drift into one spot for a while; & will soon drift into another....
The bathroom sink set in a dresser is so unexpected but somehow right!
I don't get the kitchen blacksplash, though. Why put a natural stone next to such a high-tech backsplash? It would make more sense, I think, with a black quartz countertop.
D'oh, I just said something silly. Of course quartz is natural, but what I mean is that black quartz wouldn't show so much of a lacy natural pattern, which seems too natural juxtaposed with the very man-made backsplash. Sorry!
Total eye candy Maxwell in the youtube video = good times. Thanks!
oh noes...
there is supposed to be a ' ' (plus) between candy and Maxwell...
Amazing. I love the aesthetic--really self-assured and unique. I think my favorite detail is the chalkboard art over the mantel.
i think you must be the only other person besides myself with a sumo wrestler cookie jar and chalkboard anatomy drawings in the same house. Nice to see here! your black floor is brilliant, also, along with everything else.
Beautiful, beautiful home. Cute dog.
Where can I find the bathroom canisters for qtips and cotton balls? (I'm in search of a good ones that are glass and sleek but don't feel like they're going to break like the CB ones do, so any tips are good.)
great space, but I don't see much that would merit the label "macabre". Love your bedroom lamp.
This one really inspires me!
I LOVE the layered rugs - that's definitely an idea I want to steal.
That wingback chair sent me immediately to CL - although I found nothing even remotely as wonderful.
And I love the gallery wall.
Our home is more minimal (and my husband LOVE empty counter and table surfaces), but I love your talent for accessorizing.
Wow! A girl after my own heart. Great house tour, Lindsey! I love the unexpected shiny metal touches throughout, the floors, the bathroom, the rugs, the art... everything! Well, the only thing I would change is the bed... to maybe a slimmer profile, but the bedding and colors are great! Oh - and the whole fireplace area is amazing.
Love this. It's as if Lydia Deetz grew up and became a designer.
My criticism can be vicious ... and I LOVE your place. You've demonstrated that faithfully maintaining a strong background of black, white and silver with a lot of red accents still leaves room for other great colors. It's a lesson heavily emphasized in the '80s, and a message ahead of its time now that most interiors are almost as drenched in bold colors as they were in the '70s, if not more so.
I am especially fond of your taste in art.
WOW! I think that about says it all.
I mean, there are a lot of house tours on AT that I like, even love, but very few that make me think, "That homeowner is extremely talented and creative and I am envious not just of the things in the home, but of his/her talents as well."
Is a tension rod using in photo 4? I'm wondering how you hung up that room divider sheet thingie.
Love this! I just love it all. It's the kind of home you could just sit and sit and sit in and just never get tired of looking around. Well done!
exciting! proud to be friends with the owner and have watched it evolve. She's got an AMAZING eye and unquenchable enthusiasm for tweaking her space. She did not tell you about mirroring the fireplace, which was a thing. I've been waiting for AT to finally take notice. D call me! (I have a new job. do you know this?)
also D give me your missing glass chandalier from over the bed.
Love! So original.
Eclectic done well.
Amazing how crisp and clean everything appears even though there is so much stuff. Very nice.
Wow! All the things I love tastefully done. Even I can't pull it off. BRAVO!!!
I love love the living room it has a great vibe and very original as other have said already. Great tour.
I especially love the dog :)
There's A LOT going on here....AND I LOVE IT ALL!! Thank you for sharing!
I want to be friends with Dayana! What a great, groovy, fun place. I love all of the layers in the living room, and I love the girly, funky bathroom. And yes, that sink placement is hilarious. Live and learn, right?
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in love with your home.
I really like all the black and white. I just bought a black and white lamp today that I was not sure I was going to keep it but now that I have seen all your black and white mixed with all the other colors..I am keeping my lamps.
This is my all time favorite tour!
just checked out the link to the small space big style...and maybe I am missing something....but it seems to be a different place. Smaller in square footage and different decorating!
Dayana - I second PamD. Where is that chandelier anyway? Love it. They should have found your pad YEARS ago!
This is one of the most interesting places you've done. I can't explain why, but I like the way it feels.
The floating doll's head in a vase might be an attribute of the macabre description.
We have the same coffee table, so we should be friends. Give me your dog.
I don't think I've ever seen a House Tour on AT before that was met with unanimous praise! I'm not about to break the streak - I think this home is amazing too! It's incredible how many different, interesting pieces have been fit into such a small space - and somehow, it doesn't feel cluttered. Floorplan please?
this is so wonderful. you've made it look trendy, cozy, homey, and especially effortless. who is the art by above the bed?
Best. One. Ever. I would give my left arm for the chalk drawing of a heart over the fp. And your kitchen shelving is exactly what I'm aspiring to do in my new wall of open shelves, down to the pops of orange color.
Macabre? Hardly. Fun? Comfortable? Entertaining? Totally. Nicely done.
Awww shucks... you guys are making me blush. Thank you for all the kind words. (And I LOVE the Lydia Deetz comment!) But enough about me... let's talk about my stuff!
Where's the macabre?: Lindsey spared you the pics of some of the "darker" elements of my pad. Though TheCorky's right -- the doll head vase is way creepy up close. (It's actually a metal mold from a doll making factory. I still haven't found the perfect way to display/use the metal doll leg mold. Ideas, anyone?) If you look closely you'll catch other glimpses of the macabre on the fireplace mantel: There's a metal dental mold choking up a black leather flower under one of the glass domes. Next to that is an assemblage of about a dozen teeny tiny doll hands (actually hand soap -- get it? Funny, right?). Plus, there are a few more skull/taxidermy/macabre elements not pictured here.
Shawnamuffin: My dream countertop is marble. Alas, I learned that it stains easily, so I went with this granite (which was cheap because it was a "remnant"). The backsplash tiles are kind of a placeholder until I find that perfect somethingorother. In the meantime I occasionally switch up the wall behind the shelves by tacking up faux wallpaper -- like wrapping paper or textured place mats.
Marebear74: The bathroom canisters were a Ross score, I believe. I see similar ones occasionally at places like Marshall's, TJMaxx, and Target.
LowBrowLawnParty: You nailed it! I love how the four-poster bed fills the space, but I long for one with a slimmer profile but that's still shapely.
Roxy72: The rod holding the curtains (which are actually tablecloths playing the role of room divider curtains) is a ceiling-mount curtain rod from Calico Corners. I tried a tension rod (not long enough) and then had a length of pipe cut to fit into wall-mounted brackets (hung too low because of the crown molding) and eventually found this solution.
The missing glass chandelier: PamH et al. Had I known it was in such high demand I would have auctioned it off to the highest bidder. It's hanging in the dining room of a friend's place in Hollin Hills. I should ask Lindsey to post pictures of my basement storage space and all the stuff I'm ready to get rid of.
Coletta: Good eye! You're right -- the Small Space, Big Style tour is a different apartment. It's the place I was renting before I bought this one. I probably would have stayed there if the rent wasn't about to double after the building was bought, flipped, and then flipped again.
ChicagoCharm: The painting above the bed is by my grandfather (Maurice Yochim) who, coincidentally enough, lived in Chicago. (It's titled "Istanbul" and was painted in 1966.) Most of the art pictured is from my grandparents (they were both artists and art educators) and their friends with whom they swapped pieces. I'm the luckiest girl in the world. While everyone else had Nagel and Monet posters hanging on their dorm room walls, I had original oil paintings.
Suzee: Your left arm for my human heart chalkboard drawing? Let's talk. (Kidding!)
It's too pretty to be described as macabre.
What a cool home you have made for yourself! Loved all of it! I especially loved your jewelry collection!! It mirrors my own in color and style. Love that you leave it out on display. Mine are all stored in baskets. I am re-thinking that and your tour has given me some ideas....
Thanks for sharing!
Oh my - I hear you , I hear you, I hear you when you talk about your sofa woes! I am still on the hunt for the PERFECT sofa for my small apartment. I want comfort (because lets face it I WILL fall asleep on it while watching Lie to Me), and I want style, because every space needs personality. Oh and Did I mention it has to be about 80 inches because that is the length of the longest wall in my place?! I know my time will come!!
So glad you found your perfect sofa.
I am a minimalist by nature, so I'm a little surprised by how much of this spot I LOVE! :-) My favorite things:
- the framed Chinese checker boards. I just passed on up at a yard sale last week. Kicking myself now.
- the chalkboard drawing. Totally stealing this idea. I have a chalkboard in my garage just waiting to be called into service. Found it in a dumpster. :-)
- the layered rugs. Brilliant.
- the sumo cookie jar and Kokeshi dolls. I collect the dolls myself, so I always love seeing others appreciate them.
- the jewelry holding hands. I'm totally stealing this idea too. Off to shop for them. Where did you find yours by the way?
I think I have to agree with allioopa. The owner obviously has a very creative design sense and some of the choices here are really great (love the wall of black and white pictures! and very cool TV display, as well). But overall, this place has so much stuff that I found it very stressful to look at. I don't know how much relaxing I'd be able to do in this home.
BEST house tour EVER
Re: "I should ask Lindsey to post pictures of my basement storage space and all the stuff I'm ready to get rid of."
....back off, Biahs...her stuff is MINE
mmmmmwahhh Dayana! (one guess who this is)
I heart this apartment tour!! So many unique vignettes. I love me some macabre, along with lucite and cow skins and jewelry...oh, my.
LOVVVED this house tour! Totally my style. It's clean and crisp but interesting! I love it!
Fantastic! I'm always amazed at how much bigger a small place looks when the eye is constantly attracted to interesting, well placed and beautiful furnishings. LOVE the artwork, especially the three prints(?) originals(?) in a vertical line up. Do you know the artist? Lucky lady to have had grandparents as artists!!
First, you are funny! I wish you lived next door to me so we could fail at crafts together. Second, love the place and if you ever decide to get that green wing back reupholstered, try to find the same shade of velvet - it's gorgeous. Third, that baby doll head floating in the glass is way creepy.
The bathroom is gorgeous, and I love that your personality is visible throughout the house. I would not call this cluttered at all, I love it. What sort of dog it that? Skipperkee?
It is rare for me to see a place that I like as much as my own (in terms of layout and decore). Your place is one such place--way cool!
Loved your artwork, LOVED your black and white color scheme, which was consistent, and yet had color thrown in the coolest and most unexpected places. That green wingback chair is TO DIE FOR! But my fav is the bathroom, how great with the dressform and the jewelry everywhere, it was lucsious. Glad to see apttherapy readers appreciating some boldness and unique design. I love it.
Dayana, thanks for the follow-up! Faux-wallpaper sounds really fun, especially because you can change it around if you stain it....might be a good renter's trick, too.
My dream is to have soapstone counters with some amazingly stain-resistant white paint. But what I have NOW is laminate, so I understand the dreaming!
Did anyone else watch the 'TV' link to the Small Space, Big Style clip?
Check out 1:44. It's so awesome - watch it!
Every now and then you see something that's way cool and you know you could have never done it. That's this apartment.
A floating doll's head is not that macabre. It's a joke. Taxidermy: now, that's macabre.
Glad there were no taxidermy vignettes shown because I would have had to qualify my unqualified admiration.
I LOVE THIS PLACE! I am inspired!!
I have to say, that I have been mulling over what to do about my crazy painted wood floors - multiple shades of green in the living room - since I moved in. I even posted a question on AT about how to work with the green floors! But now I'm decided. I am going to paint my floors a high shine black!
Thank you Dayana! :)
Lovely kitchen table chairs; I hope they are as comfortable as they are graceful.
SO inspiring. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
The one thing that did surprise me was how matchy-matchy the bedding and the painting above are. I'm surprised you didn't go with reds for the bedding. But whatever, I LOVE this place!
This is AMAZING.
love Love LOVE IT!! I could move in this afternoon, if that's good for you.


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[NSF-SaTC] Towards Understanding Smartphone User Privacy: Implication, Derivation, and Protection, PI, 2014 - 2016.
[NSF-NeTS] Distributed Robust Spectrum Sensing and Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks, PI, 2013 - 2016.
[ARO] Making Physical Inferences to Enhance Wireless Security, PI, 2013 - 2016.
[NSF-CSR] Smartphone Enabled Social and Physical Compass System (SENSCOPS), PI, 2013 - 2016.
[NSF-SaTC] CAREER: EASE: Enhancing the Security of Pervasive Wireless Networks by Exploiting Location, PI, 2010 - 2015.
[NSF-CCF] MILAN: Multi-Modal Passive Intrusion Learning in Pervasive Wireless Environments, PI, 2010 - 2013.
[NSF-CSR] SEMOIS: Secure Mobile Information Sharing System, PI, 2010 - 2013.
[NSF-SGER] Securing Spectrum Usage in Future Radio Systems, PI, 2008 - 2011.
[AFRL] Attribute-based Algorithms for Assured Information Sharing (A3IS) in Clouds, PI, 2012 - 2013.
[DoD] Semantic Signal Processing for the Re-hosting of Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Implementations, co-PI, 2009 - 2012.
[Army ARDEC] Multi-Sensor/Multi-Robot Network for Perimeter Security and Entry Control Point Protection, co-PI, 2009 - 2010.
[Army ARDEC] Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Multi-Sensor Platform for Intruder Detection, co-PI, 2008 - 2009.
[Army ARDEC] Cognitive & Network Centric Military Communications, co-PI, 2008 - 2009.
[Army ARDEC] PHY, MAC, and NET Layer Designs in Sensor Networks, co-PI, 2007 - 2008.
Sensing Driver Phone Use to Reduce Driver Distraction. Cell phone distractions have been a factor in high-profile accidents and are associated with a large number of automobile accidents. This project addresses the fundamental problem of distinguishing between a driver and passenger using a mobile phone, which is the critical input to enable numerous safety and interface enhancements for the driver distraction problem. We are building a detection system that leverages the existing car stereo infrastructure, e.g., the speakers and Bluetooth network. Our solution seeks to address major challenges including the complex multipath environment presented in the small confided space inside a car, minimizing interference between the speakers, and any sounds emitted should be unobtrusive to minimize distraction.
This project has received the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2011.
Research News: The Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, CNet, WCBS, Yahoo News, CSDN, Sohu and Sina.
Mobile Healthcare Leveraging Smartphones. Mobile phones have become increasingly popular and gradually woven into our social lives. Smartphones equipped with powerful embedded sensors (e.g., accelerometers, GPS, microphones, and etc.) can be used to monitor multiple dimensions of human behaviors including physical, mental and social behaviors of wellbeing. The collected sensing data can thus be comprehensive enough to be mined not only for the understanding of human behaviors or daily life activities but also for supporting a broad range of mobile healthcare applications. We are designing a smartphone based secure healthcare monitoring system which allows users to be monitored for their mental, cognitive, and physical well-being and hence facilitate early diagnosis of potential illnesses and taking possible preventive measures. The communities extracted from a mobile phone enabled social network in our system can also be exploited for securing certain components of the system (e.g., coping with clone attacks).
This project is partially funded by the National Science Foundation, PI: Yingying Chen.
Research News: Stevens News, Mobile Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society News, Mobile Health in Stevens, Fierce Mobile Healthcare, Digital Journal.
Exploiting Location as a New Dimension to Assist Wireless Security. As the increasingly pervasive wireless networks make it even easier to conduct attacks for new and rapidly evolving adversaries, the ubiquity of wireless is redefining security challenges. Thus, there is an urgent need to seek security solutions that can defend against attacks across the current heterogeneous mixes of wireless technologies. Location will be the cornerstone of new wireless services as future wireless services will support the access to resources and information from anywhere at anytime, implying that people will request services and information at different locations and at different times. In this project, we exploit location as a powerful information source to assist cryptographic-based methods to solve fundamental security problems such as detecting identity-based attacks and providing location-aware secure access of network resources.
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, PI: Yingying Chen.
Utilizing Physical Layer Properties for Secret Key Extraction in Mobile Environments. Information sharing and various data transactions on wireless devices have become an inseparable part of our daily lives. However, securing wireless communication remains challenging in dynamic mobile environments due to the shared nature of wireless medium and lacking of fixed key management infrastructures. Generating secret keys using physical layer information thus has drawn much attention to complement traditional cryptographic-based methods. This project is designing schemes of secret key generation among wireless devices using physical layer information of radio channel such as the Received Signal Strength (RSS) and the Channel State Information (CSI). We currently are focusing on exploring the fine-grained physical layer information (i.e., CSI) from multiple subcarriers of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) to achieve higher secret bit generation rate and make the secret key extraction approaches (based on physical-layer characteristics) more practical.
SEMOIS: Secure Mobile Information Sharing System. This project aims to build a secure mobile information sharing system (SEMOIS) that supports secure and privacy-preserving real-time information sharing. SEMOIS will have the ability to store secure data items with flexible access control at insecure storage nodes and enables users to send context-based messages with late-binding features. Specifically, SEMOIS plans to achieve data confidentiality and privacy-preserving through data encryption and encrypted search, and enable intentional name based message dissemination without apriori knowledge of recipients. Additionally, a set of smart learning methods will be developed to extract short-term and long-term geo-social patterns from multimodal sensing data collected by mobile devices for social networking purposes, e.g., geo-social patterns are used to derive hidden social communities.
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, PI: Yingying Chen.
MILAN: Multi-Modal Passive Intrusion Learning in Pervasive Wireless Environments. This project seeks to develop effective and scalable multi-modal passive intrusion learning techniques that have the capability to detect and track device-free moving objects in pervasive wireless environments through adaptive learning. In contrast to traditional techniques, which require pre-deployment of specialized hardware, and thus not easily deployed for unscheduled tasks and may not be scalable, this project leads to new insights into intrusion learning by mining on wireless environmental data, as well as leading to new approaches to device-free wireless localization, which can be used to assist a broad array of applications, e.g., identification of people trapped in a fire building during emergency evacuation.
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, PI: Yingying Chen.
Securing Spectrum Usage in Future Radio Systems. The openness of the lower-layer protocol stacks renders cognitive radios (CR) an appealing solution to dynamic spectrum access (DSA). Its open nature will increase the flexibility of spectrum utilization and promote spectrally-efficient communication. Nevertheless, due to the exposure of the protocol stacks to the public, CR platforms can become a tempting target for adversaries or irresponsible secondary users. A misuse of a CR can significantly compromise the benefits of DSA and threaten the privileges of incumbent users. Therefore, having the ability to enforce spectrum etiquettes is critical in future radio systems. We are designing efficient mechanisms, and developing effective frameworks that can both detect anomalous activities in spectrum usage as well as localize adversaries without requiring overhead on wireless devices.
This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, PI: Yingying Chen.
Smartphone Applications. Mobile apps, especially those location based ones, are changing the way people work and live every day, and many such apps have to deal with an indoor environment, e.g., shopping malls and airports. In many such environments, the availability of indoor location information can be used to help individuals (directions, just-in-time coupons/promotions) and organizations (passenger flow distribution in airports, customer shopping/movements' pattern in malls). All these apps would require a practical, robust and efficient smartphone indoor localization solution. We are studying a practical and energy efficient indoor localization solution leveraging multiple sensing modalities enabled by smartphones.
Anti-jamming. The increasing pervasiveness of wireless technologies, combined with the limited number of unlicensed bands, will continue to make the radio environment crowded, leading to unintentional radio interference across devices with different communication technologies that share the same spectrum. Meanwhile, the emerging of software defined radios has enabled adversaries to build intentional jammers to disrupt network communication with little effort. To ensure the successful deployment of pervasive wireless networks, we take the view point that it is crucial to localize jammers, since the locations of jammers allow a better physical arrangement of wireless devices that cause unintentional radio interference, and enable a wide range of defense strategies for combating malicious jamming attackers.
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This comfortable, antiques-filled B&B on a quiet street in Cambridge's Avon Hill conservation district, 1 mile north of Harvard Square, 500 yards to Harvard's Quad Houses & CfA Observatory, and 6 minute walk to Porter Square restaurants and Red Line subway "T"/commuter rail station, offers big rooms, great beds, free WiFi, flat screen cable TV, healthy home-cooked breakfasts, shady bird-filled gardens--a perfect retreat after a busy day. The 1910 stucco home belonged to L'il Abner cartoonist Al Capp in the 60s.
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3.8 on January 06, 2013
went there to visit our newly born grandchild on christmas. Were never before in a US B&B but liked the place quite much, because it is silent, but central (near Mass Ave) a wonderful garden, which we could not use (8 inches of snow that time). Would return anytime Dr. B. from germany
3.2 on May 23, 2010
The rooms and furniture within the rooms are a little dated and could be revamped. The bathroom definitely needs to be redone and it would help to replace the bathmat in the tub. The service was excellent and you can't ask for a better hostess.
4.0 on June 06, 2008
Blue and John were fantastic hosts and their b&b matches this exceptional quality, beautiful location, terrific rooms, friendly atmosphere, all the factors that made for a memorable stay!
City, Suburban
Boston, MA (BOS-Logan Intl.) 8 miles
Take Silver Line bus from all terminals to South Station, change to Red Line inbound toward Alewife to Porter Square. Driving: Follow signs to Ted Williams Tunnel, and Mass Pike-I-90 West. Go about 6 miles, to exit 20 for Cambridge. Bear right at exit following signs for Cambridge. Turn left along the river onto Storrow Drive, exit at sign for Harvard Square..cross bridge and go straight on JFK street, through Harvard Square, bearing left after Harvard gate, following signs for Mass Ave. north (right hand side of left split). In 7 lights, you'll see big red mobile at Porter Square T station. Turn left onto Upland Rd. and go 4 blocks to Avon Hill St. Left to #82, 6th on left.
Antique Shopping, Aquarium, Art Galleries, Concert venue, Gourmet/Fine Dining, Historical interests, Live Music, Movie Theater, Museum, Nature area, Harvard University, Harvard Observatory, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Performing Theater, Religious Services, River, Zoo
Private Home Bed and Breakfast
BBQ grill, Board games, Computer, Washer/dryer , Bicycles for loan
Air conditioning, Alarm clock, Amenities Basket, Bath robes, In-room internet, Desk, Fireplace, Hairdryer, Internet Service, Ironing Board, Library, Satellite/Cable TV, TV, Wi-Fi
Bicycles, Shopping, Sight-seeing
Mary Blue Magruder
English, French, Spanish
No pets, John is allergic.
Blue Magruder and husband John Hurwitch are both Harvard graduates. Blue spent years as Director of Public Affairs for Earthwatch, and the house is filled with folk art from her worldwide travels. She now walks to work at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. John, a retired healthcare consultant and former champion one-design sailor, now enjoys volunteering for SCORE and taking courses at Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement.
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Low fat , Restrictive , Vegetarian
Home-made breads
Plentiful self-service breakfast with whole grain breads, blueberry or orange-cranberry muffins, or dry or hot cereals, yogurt, cheeses and fruit. Always great coffee, wide selection of teas, juices and fresh fruits.
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The Deer Valley Pop Warner Football Association stores all their equipment at Thunderbird High School -- that's where they play their weekend games. But this weekend, the league tells us thieves broke into the school and hauled their equipment away.
Now the league is scrambling to get the equipment it needs to make it through the season.
For Pop Warner teams, this is what it's all about -- gearing up for state and national championships. For parents, it can be a costly investment.
"For my oldest son it's about $600-700, times by 3, so it's a lot of money," says Angela Brundon, mother of 3 sons.
But the Deer Valley Pop Warner Football Association may be forced to hike up prices after someone made off with a trailer full of football and fundraising gear.
"We had a 6 by 12 black enclosed trailer that houses all of our football equipment stolen from Thunderbird High School," says Jennifer Henson, Deer Valley Pop Warner president.
In the trailer was everything ranging from footballs to snow cone and popcorn machines. The league is now out about $10,000 in equipment.
"When these kids are out here playing, this is a diverse selection of kids. some can play, some can afford it, we do a lot of fundraising… a lot of time and energy goes into it, it's devastating," says Steve Short, pee wee coach.
Many parents rely on fundraising dollars to get their kids to out of state playoffs.
"Fundraising is very important. They might be going Florida. that's a lot of money to fork out for kids to be successful and to move forward for their season," says Brundon.
This season, the league is borrowing much of its equipment from other Pop Warner associations -- but next year, as the league tries to close the gap, higher fees could block some kids from playing.
"We already ask the parents to pay to play, but they come shop at our snack bar, so all that money that they put in weekly is kind of all for naught."
The league is not a for-profit organization.
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First LEED Platinum House in Virginia
Jetson Green
This stunning Arlington, Virginia house is the first Virginia home to gain LEED Platinum certification. Although it has 3,825 square feet, annual heating and cooling costs are $180 and $125 respectively. The house also has a green roof and water catchment tanks to retain rainwater.
Designed by Kaplan Thompson Architects, the house is located in Arlington and was built by Metro Green.
Read the full Jetson Green story: First LEED Platinum Home in Virginia.
(Images: Parker Daniell)
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Dumb question, but I assume those heating/cooling costs are per year?
If it's per year, that's really low consumption.
The roof level has such nice flooring, seems like a waste...
It does state "annual heating and cooling costs" . . . so I would presume that it would be per-year. WOW. Wish I could say the same for my place. That's more a per month total for me! (when heating/cooling is running full time). *sigh*
Regardless of efficiency; almost 4,000 square feet is not green unless it's a dormitory. LEED really needs to change their ratings to account for size and the accompanying raw material resource use.
I drove by this house when my GPS got me lost 2 weeks ago! Definitely more beautiful in person than in the pic and also more stunning since it's in a neighborhood of older, traditional homes.
Price reduced $125,000...
I don't know if it has been covered on this blog or not, but the RainShine house in Atlanta is a beautiful LEED Platinum home as well!
I guess I have a different concept of what's considered environmentally responsible, but it's hard for me to see why one family needs 4,000 square feet of space. And 4.5 bathrooms? Have we become a country where every child expects his own bathroom and can't share with one or two of his siblings?
Building a mansion and slapping on a few green features is not being a good steward of our planet.
Sorry: this is an example of greenwashing. And, selfish and inconsiderate to boot. It's a massive, overscaled structure that dwarfs the surrounding homes in a modest neighborhood.
How is that being responsible?
Agreed. Beautiful Architecture but very excessive.


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Companies propose solutions to fix I-66 traffic
At the same time drivers sit in the bumper-to-bumper traffic that plagues weekday commutes on I-66, an in-depth discussion is going on in regards to long-term solutions to solve the congestion woes along one the busiest highways in our region.
VRE holding annual 'Toys for Tots' drive
VRE holding annual 'Toys for Tots' drive, commuters encouraged to bring gift to donate
Traffic signs causing confusion in Montgomery County
A speed camera on Germantown Road in Darnestown is legal, but a speed limit sign next to it is causing confusion.
Brine, saltwater the secrets to safety on the road
What are those trucks spraying on the road?
1 green line station to close for weekend work
Metro: 1 green line station to close for weekend work, longer waits on some other lines
Expert tips to navigate the worst winter road conditions
An instructor of the Michelin Winter Driving Academy has tips to safely navigate the worst winter weather conditions.
Symposium discusses integrity and speed cameras
Some drivers like speed cameras. Other drivers hate them. For police, it's about keeping the public trust.
Chain-reaction crash snarls snowy Interstate 81
Interstate 81 closed for 3 hours after chain-reaction crash involving more than 20 vehicles
Md. drivers advised to stay off roads
Md. drivers advised to stay off roads with ice possible after snow cleared
Metro cancels track work for winter weather
Metro cancels weekend track work to prepare for winter weather
Weekend MARC service to Baltimore begins
Starting today, the Penn Line will offer nine round trips form Baltimore to Union Station in D.C on Saturdays and six on Sundays.
Police offer driver safety tips ahead of wintry weather
With snow and later ice predicted to fall over the D.C. region Sunday, emergency responders urge drivers to remember some basic winter weather rules.
MARC trains prepare for weekend service
MARC trains are working for the weekend.
Tree lighting downtown to slow commute Friday
Downtown commuters should expect extra congestion Friday afternoon as the annual National Christmas Tree Lighting will close several roads around the White House.
Drivers can reserve parking spots at Silver Line station
The only parking garage set to open in conjunction with the Silver Line is at the Wiehle-Reston East station, and drivers can begin reserving spots now.
Key Bridge reopens
Inbound and outbound lanes of the Key Bridge have reopened.
Metro proposes fare hikes as transit subsidy deadline looms
There's much to consider as Metro proposes rate hikes.
VDOT chief calls for speedup of E-ZPass marketing
VDOT chief calls for speedup of E-ZPass marketing campaign before tunnel tolls begin Feb. 1
Arlington man wants D.C. agencies criminally charged over bad ticket
A retired Air Force veteran who has fought an erroneous parking ticket for more than a year now wants D.C. prosecutors to charge the ticket writer and the Department of Motor Vehicles.
RideScout app highlights all transportation options around District
As transportation planners try and solve the traffic woes in our region, a new smartphone app aims to offer solutions.
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