Ken Fulk’s beautiful disaster: How a dream project in Marin became a $76 million nightmare

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…

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