A tale of two visionaries, a tragic death, a jilted lover, and a crumbling hospitality empire.
Animations and illustrations by Clay RoderyPhotography by John DuBois
On a warm spring day in 2024, a crowd gathered on Black Mountain in Marin County for the memorial of Margaret Grade, a neuropsychologist turned chef and innkeeper who built one of Northern California’s most mythic retreats, Manka’s Inverness Lodge…