In an industry when a restaurant reaching its first birthday is considered noteworthy, the run of the Brook Forest Inn is nothing short of remarkable.
Edwin and Marie Welz, immigrants who'd only arrived in this country in 1910, purchased an old homestead near Evergreen and in 1919 opened the Brook Forest Inn as a mountain getaway that became legendary across the country, hosting such guests as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Margaret Brown (The Unsinkable Molly) and Liberace. After Edwi
