Theoretical Windmills

No stroll through Montecito, once a haven for bandits and highway robbers, would be complete without a visit to the Music Academy Of The West, an “institution of musical learning.”

The well-to-do John Percival and Mary Jefferson, while vacationing in Spain during the Santa Barbara earthquake of 1925, sent back a shipment of tiles depicting the story of Don Quixote, which Mary used to decorate a small courtyard at the Academy.