ESSEX â The official Vermont state butterfly, the Monarch, will soon be returning to Vermont, and with it a new childrenâs book from New York Times best selling authors and Essex residents John and Jennifer Churchman.
The Happy Garden-Best Friends will be the Churchmanâs seventh book since 2015, when they debuted with their first book
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The new book opens with a tattered and tired Monarch butterfly returning to Vermont after her long migratory flight. Meeting Oliver, a happy-go-lucky frog living in the garden, she asks for his help in watching over her egg. The story unfolds with the transformation of Flora from egg to caterpillar to butterfly under the watchful eye of Oliver the frog and the farmyard and woodland friends.
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Special to The Roanoke Times
Last March, Bre Vassar, chair of Roanokeâs Historic Garden Week in Virginia tour, had already begun lining up volunteers to open their homes and gardens when the 2020 tour was canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions.
âIt was a little depressing,â she said, since she had already been working on the project â which is sponsored by the Roanoke Valley Garden Club and the Mill Mountain Garden Club â for several months.
At the time, most people thought it would be just a matter of weeks before everything got back to normal, but last spring, in an almost-prescient move, the Garden Club of Virginia â which provides publicity and support for the statewide event in exchange for a portion of the ticket sales â decided to encourage its member groups to hold outdoor-only events this year.