Please join us for our next Writer-in-Residence Summer Supper with David Gregg Hodges, author of “Sunset Lodge of Georgetown: the Story of a Madam”. Yes, Georgetown was the home of an actual brothel and her history is storied!
Founded in 1936, the Sunset Lodge was located in a white frame house three miles south of Georgetown. The business was reportedly "encouraged" by business leaders, including Tom Yawkey, a Massachusetts millionaire who owned a resort home near Georgetown. Clientele included servicemen, merchant seamen, college students, millionaires, and reportedly members of Yawkey’s famed Boston Red Sox baseball team, which passed through en route to spring training in Florida.
State legislators were also frequent visitors. Call us shocked!
Hazel Weiss owned Sunset Lodge for most of its life. She retained doctors to ensure that her employees were disease-free. According to Georgetown residents, Weiss was the largest yearly donor to the major organized charity in Georgetown. A reporter said that she ruled her business with an iron hand, refusing to tolerate drunks or rowdies and insisting on standards of behavior and dress. Sunset Lodge developed such traditions as the baseball stopover, the dispensing of Christmas funds to deputies and patrolmen at Thanksgiving, the spring week when the lodge was open only to state legislators, and Hazel’s birthday party, when Georgetown’s socially elite (men only) were invited. It was all shutdown in December 1969 by local authorities.
David Gregg Hodges authored the authoritative tome on Miss Weiss and the Lodge. He will join us for a presentation about Hazel, the history of the Lodge and do a book signing. We will have a very special menu for this evening, including a signature cocktail "Hurricane Hazel"!
MENU HONORING MISS WEISS & THE SUNSET LODGE
Hurricane Hazel Weiss Punch
Amuse Bouche
A Bloody Rita Oyster (Bloody mix, blanco tequila, lime zest garnish, Chamoy/Tajin Rim)
Hoecake Napoleon
(Roasted Red Pepper & Fresh Corn Hoe Cake with Jumbo Lump Crab Cake)
Bone In Pork Chop served Antler Style
(Fried Oysters, Charred Asparagus, & Potliker Bernaise)
Smashed Rainbow Potatoes served with Confit Garlic
Smoked Peach and Angel Food Cake
Stone Fruit Salad with a Collard Pesto Vinaigrette (Peaches and Plums and Parmesan)
House wine and tap beer included...cocktails for purchase
We're so looking forward to this and we think you will too.