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Art is what you make it... WE REALLY ENJOY OUR ANNUAL ARTS & MAKERS ISSUE. While we are committed to supporting our local artist community throughout the year, February allows a deep dive into the scene. It also gives us an excuse to look at our businesses in a different light and explore "art and making" in all forms. After all, any professional

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endeavor can be described as art so long as we bring a passion and creativity to what we do on a daily basis. Case in point? Many of us would never think of a dentist as an artist, but as Dr. Wollmann shows in one of our features this month, his passion for learning and finding ways to solve seemingly unrelated problems led to a breakthrough in his own health and now we helps others. Two of the many factors that drew me to Loudoun County was the art scene and the entrepreneurial spirit that brings so much life to our area. The core of both of these is following a passion and bringing that passion to the world around us so others can enjoy. We've found four "traditional" artists to profile, who all battled through something and now bring us their work. We also noticed a booming local bakery scene and wanted to explore what some of them had to offer...artful in their own right. Our local breweries, distilleries, restaurants and vineyards are another piece of this tapestry, and we wanted to highlight that community in this issue as well.

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INSIDE THE ISSUE FEBRUARY 2021

FEATURES 16 Four Male Artists Put Mark on the Local Arts Scene J Douglas, Ravi Raman, George Jacobs & Roger Perez

28 Dr. Josef Wollmann, DDS, Converts Pain to Peace An Inside Look at the Technology Curing Leesburg's Headaches

38 Never the Same Thing Twice How Will Winning the Governor's Cup in 2020 Change 868 Estate Winery?

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42 From Around the World or as 'Local' as Mom's: Loudoun's Bakers Make Marvels To Tackle Your Sweet Tooth

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Lifestyle Letter

Good Times

Around Town

Artist’s Palette

22 Open House 34 Local Limelight 38 Hometown Hero 42 Trend Setter 46 Giving Back

GOOD TIMES

The Ampersand Project Made The Holidays Merry for All By Christmas, The Ampersand Project had served more than 66,000 lunches to the needy. Law firms Burnett & Williams and Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig figured they’d need presents too. With the help of “personal shoppers” who donated gifts, they were able to put gifts and socks in the hands of more than 430 children from more than 136 families.

First Annual Progressive Christmas Shopping Trip Before Christmas, an intrepid band of women — all supporters of and in most cases themselves female business owners — conducted the "First Annual Progressive Christmas Shopping Trip." The shopping stroll was intended to provide both patronage and encouragement to fellow business owners when downtown shopping was threatened by the COVID crisis. Participating: Threase Bake, Evelyn Butler, Carolyn DiPrinzio, Melinda Gipson, Cathy Hoag, Tina Johnson, and Zoey Sahin.

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NEW FROM KAREN SCHAUFELD: VULTURES, A LOVE STORY Karen Schaufeld, a children's book author (The Lollipop Tree, Larry and Bob and How to Eat a Peach) will release her fourth book this Spring: Vultures, A Love Story. Karen is founder

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ARTIST’S PALETTE

FOUR MALE ARTISTS PUT THEIR MARK ON THE LOCAL ARTS SCENE J DOUGLAS, RAVI RAMAN GEORGE JACOBS & ROGER PEREZ

J Douglas' Wet Wall

PASSIONATE ABOUT PAINTING

J Douglas' Zoom Studio

J DOUGLAS After relinquishing a 17-year career as master of a struggling martial arts studio, J Douglas was broke and on the verge of a career in local law enforcement when serendipity struck. The opportunity didn’t immediately present as a Royal Flush – he’d just taken a job as a waiter at Salamander Resort & Spa in Middleburg as a stop-gap before applying to the Police Academy. He’d been painting professionally for years by then and had prints he shared with the manager of the resort’s gift shop. It didn’t take long for them to find their way into the hands of resort CEO Sheila Johnson. J relates, “Ms. Johnson was coming down the hall toward me waving my prints saying, “J, you’re an artist!” His reply, “I told you I was.” She said, “No, no, NO! People say they’re artists. You ARE an Artist!” Sheila not only asked him to sell his prints, note cards and children’s coloring books based on his work in Salamander’s gift shop, but requested that he stage a three-month solo art show at the resort. Six years later, his work still hangs in the Equestrian Center, along with a commissioned 5-ft. by 7-ft. painting of Paul Estermann, a Swedish Olympic athlete riding Lord Pepsi. J dedicated the work to Sheila in honor of the hurdles she’d help him leap to share his art with the public. Through quarantine, he’s held regular painting classes on behalf of Artists in Middleburg, splitting donations with the non-profit (profiled on p. 46), and he recently joined AIM’s board. He has plans Finished Work

for an online Art Academy he’d like to call The Excuse Free Art Academy. Everyone starts as a novice, he asserts. “I don’t consider myself a master of the arts, I’m just further along the trail than you

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are.... I want to help others walk the same path.” When not teaching or bartending, J is hard at work on commissions. See http://www.rtistj.com/

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Love in Six Lines: "Kiss"

Ravi with "Half My Heart Away"

RAVI RAMAN Growing up in New Jersey, the pull of the New York art and music scene was strong for Ravi Raman, so his works have always leaned “urban and New York-centric.” He calls himself a modern pop artist, not in the style of Warhol, but just because so much of

URBAN POP ARTIST

his work centers on pop culture.

USES COLOR AS PROSE

of Gloria in The Beautiful and Damned inspired two panels: “She

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald is a touch-stone, and his descriptions wanted to exist only as a conscious flower,” and, “A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She’s too pretty.” Because the first quote was intended as a put-down, Ravi was bemused to see so many teenage girls at Art Expo in New York where he showed the work in 2018 use it as a selfie backdrop. “Because they were relating to it, I didn’t have the heart to tell them.” That he is attuned to his audience is apparent in another work, “Half My Heart Away.” The left panel was a solo work until several people who saw it remarked that it looked like half a heart. He created another half as a cold contrast to the fiery passion of the first, and together they’re complete. Street art is a strong influence, so it’s fitting that his latest works have ended up decorating a plywood construction wall near the Dupont Circle Metro on 20th St. NW in the District. Inspired by Picasso’s minimalist work on glass, the 9-part series is called “Love in Six Lines.” The theme is as simple as the composition, says Ravi:

A Little Fitzgerald is Good for the Soul

“Boy meets girl. Boy gives girl a flower. They kiss....” You can see the whole series Love in Six Lines here: http://www. loveinsixlines.com, and all Ravi’s artwork at http://www.rtunes68.com. CONTINUED >

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GEORGE PEREZ Roger Perez in Studio

Jungle Girl

Cuban-born artist George Perez loves to paint water so it’s not surprising that he owns a place at Lake Anna. In June of 2016, a wave rider exploded when he tried to start it, propelling him like a human cannonball down an alley to land in four feet of water. By a series of seeming miracles, he survived, but with a brain injury and broken back. His journey of recovery – a month in ICU, in the hospital another six weeks wearing a hard, plastic shell like a turtle, cognitive therapy and more than a year convalescing at home – has made him grateful that he can walk and hold a paintbrush. It wasn’t until he began “Jungle Girl,” a portrait of a woman

LIFE AND PAINTING IN VIVID COLOR

who’d been covered with paint and mud as part of the Day of the Dead celebration in Puerto Villarta – “just trying to put paint on canvas,” that, “all of a sudden it came together.” It was as if painting again had unlocked his battered brain and given him back his ability to express himself, both in paint and in language, though some words still escape him. Ironically, he still derives most of his pleasure from painting hyper-realistic water scenes and vibrant portraits, and says he suffers no PTSD from his trauma. “My glass is always half full,” he says now; “I can’t stand negative people.” See his work at https://rogerperezart.com/, The Yellow Barn Studio Juried Show and other local art shows. Along Rock Creek 18

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George Jacob

I Love You, Dad

WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE

Truck at Rest

GEORGE JACOB Given George Jacob’s feel for the bucolic byways of Western Loudoun,

are composition rules, there are rules for any painting. The arrangement

you’d swear he was raised a Virginia farm boy. Instead, George was born

of the shapes, how you de-clutter, how you bring in the center of interest

in India and lived in Kuwait and Michigan before moving to Northern

of the painting, how you guide the viewer into your painting.”

Virginia in 2016 to work with a startup software business.

One painting proved a favorite at the recent Loudoun Cares Art

A highly emotive water-colorist, George challenges the viewer to

Auction. Called, “I love you, Dad,” it features his own depiction of his

engage with his works, filling in the blanks left by suggestive brush

youngest daughter when she was seven or eight. “We have a very

strokes and a calculated absence of detail. A member of the Virginia

special connection,” he allows, but it is evoking emotion in the viewer

Watercolor Society, George says, “I like watercolor because it will

that is his aim. “Then I’m quite happy.”

never let anyone master it. Watercolor behavior is unpredictable: it

The Vienna Arts Society and Loudoun libraries exhibit his work

depends on the humidity, how you layer, the gravity – you just cannot

though he wishes the library did more to promote artists. “Art is

predict how it will turn out and that unpredictability is entrancing; I

very hard to sell,” he says with characteristic understatement. He

am as eager as everyone else to see what is going to emerge.”

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AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE TECHNOLOGY CURING LEESBURG'S HEADACHES

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Unfortunately, even after scouring his dental school notes, talking to dentists and countless adjustments to his mouth pieces, the longest relief he achieved was three and a half months. He then literally stumbled upon neuromuscular dentistry when a dentist friend called him up to boast about a new machine he was using to treat his patients’ jaw pain. “I ended up almost forcing him to try it on me and found that, here is something where you can actually collect data. And, you can use these data to diagnose exactly what your jaw needs!” So impressed was he by the certainty availed him by the 3-D IMAGINE THAT YOUR MIGRAINES ARE SO FREQUENT AND SO

muscular sensing and imaging technology that he signed up for the

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same courses as his colleague. “At that moment, it just made sense

THAT ONE WILL STRIKE WHILE YOU’RE DRIVING. When they

to me. Everything else was almost a leap of faith....This was the first

come, they’re debilitating, exhausting, excruciating. Now, imagine

time I actually saw data on why my jaw wasn’t working.”

that your DENTIST can make them go away.

The seemingly magic machine, which measures and records

For one patient of Dr. Josef Wollmann, DDS’s, The Dental Company

mandibular function and chewing muscle status, comes from a Kent,

of Leesburg practice, this isn’t fantasy but fact. A homemaker in

Washington-based company called Myotronics. While it sounds

Leesburg came in experiencing debilitating headaches, underwent

complicated, essentially the tool provides electrodes that attach to

the same treatment Josef devised for himself and was migraine-free

key jaw muscles and then measures in 3-D when these muscles are

in just three weeks! “We can’t solve every single patient’s migraine

either stressed or at rest. And, it ports results that are readable to a

issue – it has to be jaw-related,” Josef says. But because this particular

trained neuromuscular dentist directly into a USB port in a computer.

patient’s problem was strictly jaw related, the solution was obvious. The solution wouldn’t have been clear to a young Dr. Josef, fresh out of dental school. For his own migraines, he blamed staying at or near the top of his class, moving from California to Texas, and having his first child – more than the usual number of life-stressers – as culprits. In fact, as he discovered after several failed attempts to craft orthotics for himself to ease his pain – his problem was actually rooted in his

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“You can use these data to diagnose exactly what your jaw needs!”

decision to get braces! “During dental school, I decided that in order to become a dentist I needed to have perfect teeth so I had braces done. I had never had braces in my life; my teeth were slightly crowded so it wasn’t too bad.” But after a year and a half, his jaw never felt right. Possibly, it wasn’t entirely the braces’ fault – there could have been an underlying problem that they exacerbated – but what he experienced was difficulty chewing meat, jaw tiredness, neck pain, shoulder pain, and yes, skull

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splitting headaches where he’d never experienced any previously. He began to craft night-guards for himself and they brought temporary relief, but none more than a few weeks. That his symptoms decreased markedly even for a while was the tip-off that his headaches could be jaw related. “So, I started treating myself for TMJ issues or TMD (Temporo Mandibular Disfunction) in technical terms.

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We should add that, first, Dr. Josef doesn’t consider himself an expert in every aspect of neuromuscular dentistry, but he has followed his own symptoms and those of family members with sleep issues, to discover cures for both TMD and sleep apnea. Dr. Josef believes that everyone’s mouth is different, so the quest for solutions to every patient’s problems

“We not only focus on your muscles, we can remedy many of the ways that they may be causing you pain.”

can only be found in continual study and research. He and his partner Dr. Marcus Hoang, DDS, spend 200-300 hours annually – each – in continuing educational studies to improve their knowledge of how to treat their patients’ dental issues with the most advanced techniques in their profession. Virginia requires just 15 hours of continuing education. For Dr. Josef, the extra study “keeps dentistry really exciting. There is so much to learn.”

In Dr. Josef’s office, patients can view their results on a wall-

He explains, “Basically, you go down one road, TMJ/TMD

mounted video screen as he explains what the colorful lines

for instance, and it will open up 10 more doors. We can’t

and squiggles may mean for his ability to treat your specific

specialize in just one thing because we’re a general dentistry

ailments, ranging from tinnitus (ringing in your ears) to neck

practice, but we try to master the things we’re most interested

and jaw pain and, of course, migraines. While the electrodes are

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ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON

T H E WAY WA R D S P Y, LO U D O U N AU T H O R ' S D E B U T WORK, BIRTHS A FRESH, NEW HEROINE IN HER PURSUIT OF A MASTER’S DEGREE IN

INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS,

SUSAN

OUELLETTE ANALYZED DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AS FIRST AN INTERN, THEN GRADUATE FELLOW AT THE CIA. She then spent three years as a professional staff member for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Service to an alphabet soup of think tanks and even a former acting CIA director heading up the Irish Peace process, followed, where she researched terrorism, splinter groups, weapons of

The Wayward Spy, Susan's First Book comes out March 2

mass destruction, infrastructure vulnerability and corporate competitive intelligence – all from open

CORRUPTION AND DECEIT LEADING STRAIGHT TO A

sources. But it was back in her days on Capitol

TERRORIST THREAT LOOMING WHERE THE RUSSIAN

Hill that she imagined a character not unlike her-

MAFIA, CHECHEN REBELS, AL QAEDA AND U.S. GOV-

self fighting the forces of evil and defeating them

ERNMENT OFFICIALS MEET.” WE’D EXPECT NOTHING

by her wits alone.

ELSE! BUT I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MAGGIE.

Her first book, The Wayward Spy, due out March

Susan: Maggie is a detective. I have her pegged at about 28.

2, blends her love of spy thrillers and her fascination

She worked at the CIA, and, in this book, is sitting in the House

with the real-life inner workings of Soviet intrigue,

Intelligence Committee. When I first conceived of her, I thought

to deliver a great tale and a tough, resourceful,

about what trouble she could get herself involved in, then out of.

realistic female character named Maggie Jenkins.

She’s not an operator, she’s an analyst, so she uses her mind.... A

We chatted with her about the book.

lot of people make these women into superheroes and I wanted her to be able to outwit the bad guys, not just walk into a room,

Q: YOUR PUBLISHER DESCRIBES YOUR HER-

find a gun behind the couch and mow them all down.

OINE AS AN INTELLIGENCE ANALYST, NOT UNLIKE YOURSELF IN YOUR EARLY CAREER,

Q: HOW DO YOU DRAW FROM YOUR

WHO SETS OUT TO CLEAR THE NAME OF HER

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES?

CIA OPERATIVE FIANCÉ WHEN HE’S KILLED

Susan: The book is based on my experiences in the agency and

OVERSEAS AND BRANDED A TRAITOR.

Capitol Hill. I started it nearly 20 years ago. It takes place in 2003. I

SHE FOLLOWS A TRAIL, “LITTERED WITH

remember sitting at work looking through the giant Congressional

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Susan Ouellette at her Home in Hamilton

Budget book, and my mind would wander. I just started get-

know what the third book is about yet. I’d have to discuss that

ting ideas for characters and who the villains might be.

with my editor: Is it Jack Ryan / female version, or is there a

[She finished the book in 2003, but it took three agents,

follow-on with entirely new characters?

massive rewrites and even penning a sequel before the book found a publisher.]

Q: HOW DID YOU GET INTERESTED IN THE SOVIET UNION?

I believe mine will be the 20th or 21st book that CamCat

Susan: I must have gotten bored with Agatha Christie at some

has put out. I’m thrilled to be with a smaller publisher because

point, and wandered over to the non-fiction section where I

I’m kept in the loop and have had a lot of input. They’re doing

started reading about all the operations that the CIA ran against

something interesting with [the audiobook]. The first third of

the KGB and vice versa, and I loved the mystery of it and the

the book will be a free, serialized podcast [in an effort to con-

secrecy. Back then it was framed as good against evil. I just

vince listeners] to buy either the audiobook or the book.

thought it was really fascinating and I was hooked.

Q: WHAT ABOUT YOUR SECOND BOOK – THE ONE YOU SAID IS ALREADY WRITTEN. ARE THEY COMMITTED TO PUBLISHING THAT TOO? Susan: They want to see it definitely. Funnily enough, I just got a Publisher’s Weekly review that mentions that it is part of my “series launch,” so who is my publisher to say?

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ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON

Never the Same Thing Twice HOW WILL WINNING THE GOVERNOR'S CUP IN 2020 CHANGE 868 ESTATE WINERY?

AT THE END OF FEBRUARY, IF TRADITION HOLDS DURING THE CURRENT PANDEMIC, JUDGES WILL PICK VIRGINIA’S TWELVE BEST WINES AND ONE OF THESE WILL WIN THE PRESTIGIOUS GOVERNOR’S CUP®. To get a feel for the level of difficulty in winning the cup, more than 530 wines entered last year’s competition for the top honor in 2020 – and each one was considered among the best the Commonwealth’s vintners had to offer. While the honor typically falls to one of the Commonwealth’s red wines, last February’s Cup went to 868 Estate Vineyards for its 2017 Vidal Blanc Passito – the first top win in the vineyard’s 8-year history, the first top honor to go to a wine made from fruit grown entirely in Loudoun County, AND the first dessert wine to win in 15 years! It is the sort of happy surprise you should come to expect from 868’s three unconventional families who have combined highly successful careers outside of agriculture with a love of great wine, great food and great art. Co-founder and Winemaker Carl DiManno was a former chemical engineer who discovered a love of wine, left the petroleum industry and then went to U.C. Davis to get a degree in Vineology. Nancy Deliso, a member of one of the three family owners, says Carl loves to experiment and typically won’t make the same thing every year so he can expand his knowledge of the art of winemaking. He likely will continue to refine the passito method because of its success, though this year’s crop was a challenge.

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Carl and Erin DiManno

The challenge begins with the appassimento pro-

it was a late harvest, and then there was the threat of

cess where grapes are partially dried on straw mats or

a very early frost. We were playing the same farming

pallets to concentrate the grapes’ flavors and sweet-

weather waiting game that we played in the Spring

ness prior to vinification. Nancy confirms that the pro-

where there were five nights of potential frost that

cess of making the wine is “extremely labor intensive.”

could destroy your whole crop, even though it had been

She explains, “The grapes are put into a refrigeration

unseasonably warm in March. Everything leafed out

trailer and held for about six weeks. They are then hand

early, then we had five nights in late May of wonder-

carried from the trailer to the press.” The juice for the

ing, ‘Is tonight the night we’re going to lose the whole

2017 vintage was “nice and sweet with about 8% resid-

crop?’” After the crop was ripe it was left on the vine

ual sugar, but we had to go to great lengths to get it to

as long as possible, “then it sat in a refrigerated trailer

stop there. We chilled it, filtered the wine, and bottled

for a couple of weeks, keeping that constant chill, then

it in a small bottle to which wax was applied by hand.”

moved from there to our barn where it will be drying

Nancy describes the taste as “lots of fruit, where

probably into January as it continues to dehydrate and

the apricot and sugar balances nicely with the acid-

shrivel and concentrate all of those wonderful flavors.

ity to give you a nice clean drinking experience – you

We’ll press as soon as Carl says it’s ready.”

won’t get that cloying feeling of some sweet wines.”

Despite the detail, 868’s goal isn’t to educate con-

If you were lucky enough to have purchased a bot-

sumers about wine, but to encourage them to come

tle, she recommends pairing it with dried apricots,

and enjoy it with the three families as if they are family

blue cheese and roasted almonds to amplify some

themselves. On Thanksgiving, friends and neighbors

of the flavors in the wine. “But make no mistake, the

often hike to the top of the hill overlooking the vine-

wine IS the dessert.”

yards, which has an elevation of 868 feet, and thus

By winning the Cup, Nancy hopes to expand the

serves as the namesake of the estate.

appreciation of dessert wines among consumers, many

“We want the wine that we make to be part of get-

of whom say they “don’t like sweet wine.” She says, “I

ting people together around the table. We want people

think reds tend to be perceived as more serious, more

of all walks of life to feel welcomed, and experience

sophisticated, right?... Our Passito really was a different

wine. What we want is for people to come, be in com-

kind of dessert wine than people were expecting. It’s

munity and enjoy what we are making. That extends

not just sweet. There’s more going on in it than that.”

to what we’re making in the winery with Carl, on the

“Right now, in our barn, we have bins of the vidal

beautiful grounds that we have and even the local

grapes drying. There’s a fan that blows across them.

artists that are featured in the tasting room. Those

You have to be patient. It’s a process that requires leav-

are all the elements that go into making an enjoyable

ing the grapes hanging as long as you dare. This year

customer experience.”

CONTINUED >

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Vidal Drying in the Barn for the 2021 Vidal Blanc Passito

Dessert Wine Claims Top Honors

+ Founded in 2012 by three families, Winemaker Carl and Erin DiManno; Wendy and Chris Charron; Nancy and CEO Peter Deliso, and named for the winery’s highest point of elevation. + Found online at https://868estatevineyards.com/ and in Purcellville at 14001 Harpers Ferry Rd., 22 acres under vine: Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay, Vidal Blanc. Watch a video of the winemaker discussing the Passito at http://vimeo.com/LeesburgLifestyle. + Its on-site Grandale Restaurant isn’t open during ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, but its unique farm-tofork food is available through Grandale Catering. + Submitting for the 2021 Governor’s Cup: 2019 Cab Franc, 2019 Altezza (a Nebbiolo blend), 2019 Meritage, and a 2018 Chardonel. + The wine club is free to join with a commitment to buy 12 bottles per year that the winemaker picks unless the customer wants to swap – something last year’s members did with the 2017 Passito to their great chagrin.

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GREAT ART, SMALL PRICES.” There were

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+ An Homage to our Seas: the Water, the

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