Sweet Violets
201240m
Documentary
In the Gilded Age and beyond, high fashion decreed that violets were the flower of choice for Valentine's Day, Easter, and a fragrant corsage. At its height, in the years before World War I, Rhinebeck, New York, growers shipped millions of sweet violets (viola odorata) to New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and beyond.
You Might Also Like
The Lost Spirits
2009
Local Heroes: Baseball on Capital Region Diamonds
1995
6.2
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
2010
10.0
Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower
2012
7.0
15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 1)
2006
7.0
15 Miles On The Erie Canal (Part 2)
2006
8.0
MOVE
2017
Farm to Fashion
2026
Rails to the Catskills
2014
The First Artist in America: The Life and Times of John Vanderlyn
2017
No image
Are WE Beautiful?
2025
The Catskill Mountain House and the World Around
2010