Kindred Spirits articles from June 2003

Kindred Spirits archives from June 2003

A Sunshiny Morning.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... A Sunshiny Morning All night there was tempest and darkness and storm, But now comes a sunshiny morning. And the world purer made by baptism of rain With new beauty itself is adorning: The sky is a...

Dear Kindred Spirits.(passages from author L.M. Montgomery's scrapbook)(novel Anne of Avonlea)(Transcript)
June 22, 2003... ... love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship.... Anne of Avonlea The short and poems stories of LM Montgomery s saved in her personal scrapbooks were often accompanied by selections written by other authors at the time. In...

Two paths diverge.(separation of friends; narrative)
June 22, 2003... ... Anne took the left turning when they came to a fork in the road. Anne of Avonlea Two Paths Diverge The first time it happened I was twelve years old. Our best friends moved away; the whole family went. Oh we had warning, about...

Facts and fancies.
June 22, 2003... I think the most difficult thing in teaching, as well as the most interesting, is to get children to tell you their real thoughts about things. Anne of Avonlea The little drawings will help you to distinguish between facts and...

Lay It Softly In The Beach Grass.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Lay It Softly In The Beach Grass I approached the dawn in The silence of the morning The spilling of fire Was dropping the ashes of youth I reach for the hand Next to me But it is not there Not...

Shining Water.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
June 22, 2003... Shining Water Shimmer, ripple Clean, clear blue Caressed in beauty Soft and true You're the Shining Water Kindred spirits Come to gather For times of memory, Fun and laughter By the Shining...

A Beautiful Island.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
June 22, 2003... A Beautiful Island The sound, sights, and smell. The wind rippling over the ocean, the red soil, and the salty island air. These are some things you can see, smell, and hear quite well. The people who live there...

Summer pilgrimage.(Prince Edward Island locations associated with author L.M. Montgomery)
June 22, 2003... ... with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing splendour of poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard... Anne of Avonlea...

Pen friends.
June 22, 2003... Annetta Bell's letter was quite long.... Anne of Avonlea Dear Kindred Spirits, My name is Tiffany Errin Kirby Rock. I'm looking for pen-friends to write me. I am 14 years old and my birthday is September 13, 1988. I would like pen...

Nurse Friedrich.(Short Story)
June 22, 2003... Forrest was, as usual, busy when I dropped in to see him that afternoon. He had come down to Owlwood only the night before; yet here he was already at work upon a set of illustrations he was doing for one of the big magazines. He was glad to...

The island.(Poem)
June 22, 2003... ... over every sunlit upland and field was a delicate, flower-starred green Anne of Avonlea The Island There is no other island than 'The Island.' How else could there God fashioned the Island with His own hands weaving...

Tulips on PEI and why a Real Dutch Princess was Born in Canada.(Prince Edward Island)(Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, her husband Peter van Vollenhoven)(Biography)
June 22, 2003... It looks like a bit out of a story book or a dream... Anne of Avonlea In 1943 a real Princess was born in Ottawa, Canada. It was Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, the third daughter of the then Dutch Crown Princess Juliana. ...

Cavendish Macneill homestead home of LM Montgomery.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... I was brought up by my grandparents in the old Macneill Homestead in Cavendish. The Alpine Path LM Montgomery lived in this house for 35 years. Here she climbed the Alpine Path so hard, so steep publishing over 650 stories and poems....

Bringing in the Cows.(farm life; narrative)
June 22, 2003... ... The winds were purring in the spruces Anne of Avonlea My grandfather's farm stands still now but the memories of that farm to this day are very vivid in my mind. Growing up on the farm brings back many precious memories and one of them...

Chicken scratch embroidered.(Sewing Circle)
June 22, 2003... Miss Lavendar was carrying in the teapot. Anne of Avonlea Chicken Scratch Embroidered Apron Materials: 1 m 36" Gingham Print 1/4" Matching Thread White Embroidery Floss Tapestry Needle Size 24 Embroidery Hoop Cut the following...

A Victorian tea party.(narrative)
June 22, 2003... I cooked for it... and set it with my mother's wedding china... and I dressed up for it. Anne of Avonlea On a sunny, August afternoon, my two nieces, Erin (9) and Emily (4), as well as a special young lady, Sarah (11) came together...

Chronicles of an old garden.(scarecrows in gardening and literature)
June 22, 2003... How is your garden coming on, Davy-boy? asked Anne... Anne of Avonlea Davy Keith needn't have been questioned if he'd set a scarecrow in solemn vigilance over his garden plot. As it was, he dug and hoed and raked and watered and...

Mary Miles Minter still fascinates us!(1919 silent film adaptation of novel Anne of Green Gables with actress Mary Miles Minter)
June 22, 2003... Mary Miles Minter. More than 80 years after she starred in the 1919 Anne of Green Gables movie, the sweetheart of the silent screen still fascinates us. Part of that is because her career collapsed in sensational ruins after the director of...

Around the kitchen table.
June 22, 2003... Peas and Cauliflower Salad 3/4 head of lettuce 3/4 head of cauliflower 3/4 of an onion, sliced or chopped 1 1/4 cup fresh peas 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise or Miracle Whip salad dressing 12 slices of crisp cooked bacon, cooled &...

Tribute to Anne.(Anne)(Poem)
June 22, 2003... A tall, slim girl, 'half-past sixteen,' with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to...