How does one connect the dots among the century-old Los Angeles Breakfast Club, Washington, DC, an unauthorized house demolition in Knoxville, Tennessee, an untimely death in Chicago, and Mary Ann Kuhnâs Middleton Inn in the town of Washington?
Ruthie Windsor-Mann, left, holding Lily Holleman and Betsy Christenberry Holleman Burke holding Windsor Mann. Photo by Betty Christenberry
In the late nineties, Washingtonian Betsy Christenberry Holleman received word that her 63-year-old husband, Vernon, had unexpectedly died while on a business trip in Chicago. During the periods of sadness and grief, the mother of three children made many attempts to find solace.Â