Kindred Spirits articles from June 2000

Kindred Spirits archives from June 2000

Poplars at the gate.
June 22, 2000... Softly they murmur in their mystic language, And whisper to each other in the dew: Telling the legends of primeval forests, They keep their stately watch the long hours through. Upon their leafy brows the Summer breezes ...

Calling of the sea.
June 22, 2000... I can't resist the sound Of the haunting, mournful music. And I am wholly found In its spell. Underneath A cloud -- veiled moon Than a windy night Not a prettier tune. Hark! The cry A distant gull....

Prince Edward Island: Ernest and Myrtle Webb, and Mistress Pat.
June 22, 2000... -- Dedication in Mistress Pat Maud's youth was also preserved on the Webb farm, now known as Green Gables. Ernest and Myrtle Webb and their children are the only family to be mentioned in a dedication. However, Montgomery was also close to...

Summer pilgrimage: walking through PEI - Lucy Maud Montgomery land.
June 22, 2000... In the magazine Scan Can News #4, 1998 I found a note concerning Canada 1999. It noted the celebration of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a festival concerning her birth 125 years ago. The article said that on PEI, the year 1999 was declared Lucy Maud...

Grand imaginations.
June 22, 2000... "Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed. "No"... "Oh, Miss Marilla, how much you miss!" - Anne of Green Gables Why, what is an imagination some people ask? It is not a big task to explain,...

Interview with Deirdre Kessler.
June 22, 2000... Q: When did you first come to Prince Edward Island? A: I crossed on the ferry from Caribou, Nova Scotia to Wood Islands, PEI, on May 15, 1970. The sun was shining and it was an early and warm spring. I have called the Island home ever since...

Tea with Terri (Kamakawi).
June 22, 2000... While shopping one day Terri Kamakawi just happened across a book titled Anne of Green Gables. She purchased it; not knowing how reading this book would change the way she wanted to live her life. She fell in love with L.M. Montgomery's writing...

Under the shadow: in memory of Pauline Joyce Jones.
June 22, 2000... On a wintry day in March the Webbs of Green Gables, Cavendish, PEI were blest with a baby girl. She was the fifth child of Ernest and Myrtle Webb and joined siblings Marion, Keith, Anita and Lorraine in a home filled with love. A constant...

Anne with an "e".
June 22, 2000... -- Anne of Green Gables A curious imaginative child is she She names each lovely place And always goes to chase A golden cloud- A crimson sunset- She'd like to tie Down each shimmering star In the dark blue...

Marriage and art in the Emily trilogy.
June 22, 2000... -- Emily of New Moon The Emily trilogy presents L. M. Montgomery's most autobiographical heroine. It is also a "novel of development", a "novel of education" and a branch of the former, an "artist novel" which presents the development of...

Chronicles of an old garden - the author's gates.
June 22, 2000... -- A Tangled Web A gate represents the hope of something as yet not understood; until, we open the gate. A well remembered story of childhood immediately comes to mind -- `Peter Rabbit, who was very naughty, ran straight away to Mr....

Anne of Green Gables: the continuing story.
June 22, 2000... In 1895 Lucy Maud Montgomery scribbled in her book of ideas, elderly couple apply to an orphanage for a boy. By mistake, a girl is sent to them That was how Anne was born. SULLIVAN ENTERTAINMENT presents A Kevin Sullivan Production, Anne...

Around the kitchen table.
June 22, 2000... -- Jane of Lantern Hill 1 head romaine lettuce 1 can mandarin oranges (drained) slivered almonds (toasted in oven) Dressing: 1/3 cup vinegar 3 T. oil 1/3 cup sugar 1 tsp. almond flavouring 3/4 of...

Sewing circle (girdle of roses).
June 22, 2000... -- The Story Girl Like the children in the Victorian art of Kate Greenway, the Story Girl wove a girdle of roses. Often wondering how this is done, we were delighted to discover L.M. Montgomery's written version of it in a 1902 column of...