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was held there for Layayette. At the Laurel Brigade Inn, the author sampled a “flavorful crabcake, seasoned with lemon juice and mustard.’’ She pronounced proprietress Mrs. Ellen Wall’s Apple Brown Betty served with brandy hard sauce, “remarkably good.’’
South of Leesburg, the author visited Oak Hill, the home of President James Monroe now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Prendergrast, for a drink. Thus she didn’t pass judgement on the cooking, but observed that “Gene Prendergrast reminds me very much of Katherine Hepburn, even to the way she tilts her head.’’ At Oak Hill, Mrs. Thomas had fine words for the dining room, “red carpeted and glittering with silver’’ and the “high silk hung feather bed” in the Dolly Madison
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