Kindred Spirits articles from December 2000

Kindred Spirits archives from December 2000

Dear kindred spirits.
December 22, 2000... Grown fat from laughing is a delightful expression of merriment and all about a jug! Jugs, pitchers and vases are all vessels for liquids, sometimes used for flower arrangements. Although breakable, each one portrays a longing of its era in...

Our kindred spirits share.
December 22, 2000... - Anne of Avonlea Dear Kindred Spirits: My love affair with Avonlea began with a Saturday afternoon and a television remote control. During high school my Saturdays were usually spent in the company of a good book. I had made few...

Evening star.
December 22, 2000... Calm-browed and white in the blue west I shine And send my light Thro' golden deeps and shallows crystalline Adown the night. Below are gulfs of sunset over-brimmed, And yet more low Dim primrose shores and valleys...

Picture this.
December 22, 2000... picture a man in a meadow of old dashingly handsome silent yet bold dizzily whirling his love in his arms losing all else in her smiles, her charms picture a child on a low garden wall in a pink ruffled frock ...

Christmas of long ago.
December 22, 2000... Hurrah! cried Ted, jubilantly. "Christmas will be here in a week. I wish it came every month." "Christmas will be extra nice this year because grandma is with us," said Alice, with a loving glance at the old lady with the silver hair and...

Millennia according to L.M. Montgomery.
December 22, 2000... - Selected Journals Vol. I We are all familiar, and perhaps tired of the controversy about whether the year 2000 is the first year of a new century and millennium or the last year of the old. The media continues to be fascinated by this...

Have you ever been to Prince Edward Island?
December 22, 2000... HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO PEI IN SPRING? Discover PEI in Spring. Snow flakes, icebound lakes, wind shakes, greening breaks, blue bunting wakes, winter forsakes. Schedule a trip to PEI in Spring! Woodsmoke soars, out-of-doors, garden chores,...

Around the table.
December 22, 2000... Nowadays folks are doing things for which, had they done or tried to do them a couple of hundred years ago, they would have been sent to heaven in the shape of smoke. Marconi would probably have been regarded as the very archfiend himself and...

Maud's kindred spirit.
December 22, 2000... -- The Wheel of Things In many of LM Montgomery's books the main character is a willful, independent young girl/woman who always seems to find herself at odds with those around her, and yet it is her uniqueness and strong sense of...

Beloved old jugs.
December 22, 2000... Great-grandmother Woolner's old jug, filled with pot-pourri, stands on the table. This old jug has quite a family history. Great-grandmother Woolner had a sister named Harriet Kemp. This Harriet had a sailor lover who, on one of his voyages --...

Frienship rekindled.
December 22, 2000... -- Selected Journals Vol. I come from a family full of avid readers; therefore I was bound to become one. I read books out of necessity, longing, and for sheer imagination. Along with Alice, I followed a White Rabbit. I listened intently...

Legend of Millie.
December 22, 2000... The wind was breezy. Millie was in her stable in North Carolina, USA. Millie's owners Pete and Bertha were in their cozy little trailer. Millie was all they had. They didn't have very much money. Suddenly a rabbit ran across the stable. Millie...

Valentine mistake.
December 22, 2000... The "big girls" of the school at Village Centre were all standing about the stove one sharp February morning laughing and talking together -- that is, all but one of them. As usual, Margaret Ledney was away off by herself in a corner,...

Chronicles of an old garden - a garden of remembrance.
December 22, 2000... -- The Garden Winter Winter was made for gardeners! The snow drifts down on the long dark days of winter. With a pile of gardening books and seed catalogues we savour the glossy pages of those wish books. Tomorrow's garden takes shape....

Bala's cranberry festival.
December 22, 2000... Sunday, Sept. 2, 1894 -- Selected Journals Vol. I Bala, Muskoka, Ontario's smallest incorporated town, is famous for two things: cranberries and Lucy Maud Montgomery. For the past 16 years Bala has celebrated the harvest of cranberries...

Around the kitchen table - Maud's cranberry connection.
December 22, 2000... -- Anne of Ingleside Maud was no stranger to cranberries. Her Mock Cherry Pie -- a favorite of son Stuart's -- was published in Elaine and Kelly Crawford's "Aunt Maud's Recipe Book". The combination of raisins and cranberries makes a...

Crocheted candy cane.
December 22, 2000... -- Anne of Ingleside This crocheted candy cane is quick to make and adds a wonderful Victorian touch to any Christmas decor. Ch 59, keep chain straight. Row 1: Tr in 5th chain from hook, tr in next chain, * ch 2, sk 2 chains, tr...

Chocolate wreath cookies.
December 22, 2000... 2 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 4 cups crisp, flaky cereal (Special K or Corn Flakes) Melt chocolate chips over hot water in double boiler. Add cereal and mix until well coated. Place spoonfuls on wax paper and form wreaths...

Candy cane cookies.
December 22, 2000... 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup butter (softened) 1 cup icing sugar 1 egg 1 1/2 tsp. almond extract 1 tsp. vanilla 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. red food coloring 1/3 cup white sugar 1/3 cup...

Bend in the road CD-ROM wins three awards.
December 22, 2000... At the Baddeck International New Media Festival, the LM Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island received an impressive total of three awards for its multi-media CD-ROM The Bend In the Road: An Invitation to the World and...