There will be a literary luncheon with Kathy Leonard Czepiel (author of A Violet Season) at the Saturday, May 21 Millbrook Literary Festival. A Violet Season is the story of a mother and daughter amidst the backdrop of the Hudson Valley violet industry. From the late Victorian era up to World War I, violets were all the rage, and a quarter of the nation's violets were grown in Dutchess County, whose soil is uniquely suited to the plant.
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