leaf lettuce are growing new leaves. And down the middle are plastic bags of seeds that are germinating: cilantro, chives, and mint.

The dining room table is covered with seedlings.

Ms. Flaherty grew up in the Pacific Northwest, learning gardening from her grandfather, who was raised on a farm, and her mother, whose kitchen garden included apple and cherry trees, and her Aunt Terri, who was the first to show her how to plants bulbs as a small child. But it wasn’t until Ms. Flaherty moved with her husband, Cantor Erik Contizius, to a home in New Rochelle just over the Larchmont border that she was able to start a vegetable garden of her own.

And what a garden it is!

Last year she was wandering through Barnes and Noble when sheRead the Revolution

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January 23, 2019

Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge (Young Readers Edition)

When Ona Judge decided to run away from her enslavement at the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1796, she risked her life in search of freedom. Her journey to escape from the ownership of George and Martha Washington is an inspirational story of survival and determination in the face of slavery. Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar has made Judge’s story more widely known through her 2017 publication Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge. To make Judge's story even more accessible, Armstrong Dunbar teamed up with Kathleen Van Cleve to adapt her telling of Judge’s journey to freedom into a young readers edition.

Released in January 2019, the young readers edition of