Newspaper clippings · June 25, 1998

Easy Reader profiles Gordon and Betty Evans’s Hermosa home

David Hunt describes the Evans home, garden and collections. Included as biographical context for Betty Evans. The copy is incomplete; the article continues.

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June 25, 1998 Easy Reader Little house in the valley is by David Hunt Gordon and Betty Evans' Hermosa Valley home is one of the town's most expansive residences. Light streams in from every angle. Paintings, sculptures and books compete for your attention at every turn. The grand backyard, with well-worn picnic tables scattered under a cover of Concord grape vines, stretches out toward the sand dune behind the house. Just before the slope of the dune sits Gordon's workshop, a cluttered, comfortable studio where he loses track of time in creative seclusion. "Don't write too much," Gordon warned. "I don't want anybody to know about our Shangri-La." In terms of square footage, the wood and stucco house is rather small by current standards. The two-bedroom, one-bath home, where Betty and Gordon raised their three kids, was built after World War II, when G.I. loans and low interest rates spurred Southern California's building boom. It just seems like a big place - in part because the house has taken on the Evans family personality; creative, wide-open, world-oriented. Partly, also, because it was built with generous setback. "The backyard is what really sold us on the house," Betty said. "It's like another room. We've had as many as 80 people in the backyard." The Evans took a round-about course The large patio area features picnic tables, shaded by grape vines. Waterfront Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of July. Not, we are told, Flag Day... SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE: It's the Don't waste your time shopping around, when we have

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June 25, 1998 Easy Reader
Little house in the valley is
by David Hunt
Gordon and Betty Evans' Hermosa
Valley home is one of the town's most
expansive residences. Light streams in
from every angle. Paintings, sculptures
and books compete for your attention at
every turn. The grand backyard, with
well-worn picnic tables scattered under a
cover of Concord grape vines, stretches
out toward the sand dune behind the
house. Just before the slope of the dune
sits Gordon's workshop, a cluttered, comfortable studio where he loses track
of time in creative seclusion.
"Don't write too much," Gordon
warned. "I don't want anybody to know about our Shangri-La."
In terms of square footage, the wood
and stucco house is rather small by cur-
rent standards. The two-bedroom, one-
bath home, where Betty and Gordon
raised their three kids, was built after
World War II, when G.I. loans and low
interest rates spurred Southern
California's building boom.
It just seems like a big place - in part The large patio area features picnic tables,
shaded by grape vines.
because the house has taken on the
Evans family personality; creative, wide-
open, world-oriented. Partly, also, Waterfront
because it was built with generous set- back.
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