Kindred Spirits articles from December 2001

Kindred Spirits archives from December 2001

Emily Climbs.(novel by author L.M. Montgomery)
December 22, 2001... Years ago I wrote a 'vow'--I found it the other day in an old packet in my cupboard-that I would 'climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.' I'll keep on climbing! Emily Climbs So it is that L. M. Montgomery, as...

Dear Kindred Spirits.(At New-Moon Time )(Poem)
December 22, 2001... Emily Byrd Starr was alone in her room, in the old New Moon farmhouse at Blair Water, one stormy night in a February of the olden days.... Emily Climbs One winter evening Maud Montgomery glanced over her scrapbook of reviews. The...

Our Kindred Spirits share.
December 22, 2001... Something in her look made me feel glad and proud and happy and humble. Emily Climbs Dear Kindred Spirits, I am a teacher / librarian at a High School and one of my goals is to introduce students to the writings of LM...

Chronicles of an Old Garden.(keeping a memento book on gardening)(author L.M. Montgomery's novel Emily Climbs)
December 22, 2001... I read my Chronicles of an Old Garden over the other night. Emily Climbs Stationer's shelves are filled with rows of blank books. Their attractive covers are a beautiful display of scenes and flowers. L.M. Montgomery would have...

Pen friends.
December 22, 2001... May every day be kind to you. Emily Climbs Dear Kindred Spirits, I am 13 years old and I live just outside of Toronto, Ontario in Canada. I am originally from Poland. I enjoy reading, writing, biking and swimming. (I also enjoy...

Who Knows?(Poet's Corner)(Poem)
December 22, 2001... Who Knows? Were you to come to me once more, my love, And lay your hand in mine, and kiss my brow, And speak to me of the sweet long ago And say you loved me then, and love me now-Would all that was, and all that...

Anne's Blanket of Snow.(Poet's Corner)(Poem)
December 22, 2001... Anne's Blanket of Snow Moments like this are priceless; quiet and peaceful Light flakes of snow falling from the sky. A cold touch of beauty, only lasting for moment in time. What an elegant blanket shall cover Green...

Yankee Hill Cemetery.(within Prince Edward Island National Park; narrative)
December 22, 2001... She missed even the little graveyard where slept the New Moon dead. Emily Climbs When you enter the Bubbling Springs Trail in the Prince Edward Island National Park by Dalvay, you will soon come to a small, quiet gravesite. It will...

L. M. Montgomery's "Anne".(novel Anne of Green Gables)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Not until early in this century did Canadian writers of fiction quite have the realistic eye to see what literary material might be gathered from our commonplace farms, lonely villages and remote frontiers, provided one had the knack of...

Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery.
December 22, 2001... A new book about L.M. Montgomery! Here the writer is remembered through first-hand reminiscences of the people who her. Her Sunday school students, neighbours, maids, family and friends paint a portrait of Montgomery as she has never before...

Bala Museum's new display of foreign language LMM books: we've run out of room to keep them, David explained.(author L.M. Montgomery; David Macdonald)
December 22, 2001... The weeks and months leading up to L.M. Montgomery's death in April were extremely stressful and depressing. If only LMM could have known that a Japanese woman was secretly translating Anne of Green Gables at that same time, and that the...

An English exam.
December 22, 2001... As far as the English paper was concerned she might almost as well have gone home. Emily Climbs Mix and match the author and their works or places as mentioned in 'Emily Climbs'. Sandy 1. Charles Dickens 2. Keats 3. Charlotte...

Patchwork quilts.(passage from author L.M. Montgomery's journal)(Transcript)
December 22, 2001... I could sit and quilt happily for hours. Selected Journals Vol. III LMM To-day, in going through an old trunk I came upon a "crazy quilt." And I took it out and unfolded it and sat me down to study it and the memories of the past it...

The Burton Girls' patch party.(Fictional Work)
December 22, 2001... We'll sew in the afternoon, and get acquainted... LM Montgomery Dolly," said Wilhelmina Burton, going into her sister's room one summer morning, "what are we going to do about entertaining the Lloyd girls? Have you been thinking about...

The Season's Smile.(Winter Pilgrimage)(Poem)
December 22, 2001... I had a beautiful two weeks at old white-hooded New Moon. Emily Climbs The Season's Smile Does the fleeting Fall appeal to you? When air is crisp and skies are blue And leaves are painted by elfin skill That...

Leaskdale Manse scaled model: unveiling ceremony: Kate Macdonald addressed the audience in the format of a letter written to her famous grandmother...(author L.M. Montgomery)
December 22, 2001... L.M. MONTGOMERY DAY in LEASKDALE ONTARIO On Saturday, October 20, over 100 people gathered at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Leaskdale. Some travelled considerable distances from Halifax NS, Pennsylvania USA, Isle of Man UK, and...

Around the kitchen table.
December 22, 2001... Margaret's Scotch Bannock 2 1/4 cups flour (after sifting) 1 cup bran 1 teaspoon salt 5 teaspoons baking powder 1 small container whipping cream (250 ml) 2 teaspoons white sugar 1 teaspoon molasses Place dry ingredients...

Sewing circle.(making quilts)
December 22, 2001... ... a crazy quilt on your spare-room bed. Emily Climbs To make a crazy quilt you will need a collection of fabric scraps, a foundation fabric such as unbleached muslin or bed sheet and embroidery floss. It is easier to work on...

Clorinda's gift: and then one evening it just came to me, without any thinking at all ...(Fictional Work)
December 22, 2001... It is a dreadful thing to be poor a fortnight before Christmas, said Clorinda, with the mournful sigh of seventeen years. Aunt Emmy smiled. Aunt Emmy was sixty, and spent the hours she didn't spend in a bed on a sofa or a wheelchair; but...