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Developing a Spanish Accent

WILLIAMSBURG For Don Harris, the day in 1965 when he stepped off a ship in Valencia, Spain, remains vivid: "I said, 'I'm home.' " His reaction was instantaneous, and the sentiment grew. In the 18 days that he spent in ports around the country as a U.S. Navy chaplain, he came to love "the way the Spanish cherish children and operate at a family level," the way life revolves around mealtime socializing. And when he took his own wife and sons there for a three-year stay in the mid-1970s, they became smitten with not just the country and its people but also the food: saffron-scented paella, shrimp sizzling in garlic sauce, paper-thin slices of intensely flavored ham. ...
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By Ellen Ficklen