Anita M. Smith (AMS), a Quaker and a high-society refugee from Philadelphia, arrived in Woodstock in 1912 to study art. When a family crisis forced her to give up painting, she took up gardening, and in 1933 she founded Stonecrop Garden. By 1939 she was selling herbs in all forty-eight contiguous states and had independently published As True as the Barnacle Tree. The book was based on the work of early herbalists such as John Gerard, Nicholas Culpeper,...