Kindred Spirits articles from March 2005

Kindred Spirits archives from March 2005

Speaking to the world.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... Speak to the world in your own tongue through it, with truth and sincerity... Each In His Own Tongue Into the pocket of her fancy apron, Maud Montgomery would reach for her notepad. The amusing little happenings that occurred from day...

Dear Kindred Spirits.
March 22, 2005... Fifteen years! murmured Mrs. George helplessly to the dahlias. The Winning of Lucinda Chronicles of Avonlea, first edition, 1912 Illustrated by George Gibbs Looking back over fifteen years of Kindred Spirits publication seems as...

Our Kindred Spirits Share.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... We could see the garden path and gate through the hall window... Aunt Olivia's Beau Our Kindred Spirits Share The smoky smell of the pine fire ushers in the new year. Shadows of gloom recede quickly in the light of...

Spring Wanders Down the Lane.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Spring Wanders Down the Lane The sun sets upon the last of Winter's gifts. His frosty coat and hat hang neatly now, and if you listen, you can hear his contented snores. Spring has awoken, refreshed and ...

Young Dancer.(The Poet's Corner)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Young Dancer When April is gentle She rolls 'cross the land With young step and dance And a gardener's hand. She's frank but she's careful To brighten the grey With rainbows and flowers In vivid array....

Chronicles of an old garden.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... ... the flame of tulips... Old Lady Lloyd The gorgeous red and yellow old-fashioned tulip quilt fictionally stitched by Mrs. Rachel Lynde made its debut in our kindling issue fifteen years ago. Now, the flame of tulips grown in the garden...

Painting with words.
March 22, 2005... Without my impromptu comments, the speech seems very different. The other paintings I used are only in slide form and make poor photographs for reproduction. I hope this finds all the family and friends of Kindred Spirits well and happy....

Springtime pilgrimage.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation at Echo Lodge... The Hurrying of Ludovic Rain in the Country Here in the country, the cool, sweet rain Falls on the daisies and growing grain, Shadows the pond with widening rings,...

Minute by minute: the Cavendish Literary Society 1886-1924.
March 22, 2005... It is an understatement and redundant to say that Lucy Maud Montgomery had a keen intellect and a fine literary mind. Her intelligence was mostly of a genetic makeup, as her ancestors enjoyed high esteem as orators, raconteurs and politicians,...

The re-enactment: (August 11, 1890-August 13, 2004) in celebration of LM Montgomery.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... Tuesday, Apr. 22, 1890 Do you know, journal mine, I may take a trip out west to see father this summer. Grandpa Montgomery is talking of going and if he does he will take me. It has been talked of vaguely all winter but it is about settled...

A baking of gingersnaps: ... Alma emerged cautiously from the pantry.
March 22, 2005... For the Ladies' Journal, 1895 ~ Maud Cavendish I believe this plum-cake must be done--there's nothing comes off on the straw, anyhow. Bessie, come and see what you think. The speaker held the oven door partly open, and a warm, plummy...

Around the kitchen table.
March 22, 2005... Aunt Clem said with a smile for Alma: Well no, it was my niece, she is quite the cook... A Baking of Gingersnaps Ginger Snaps--(from the Collection of Elmer Hardy, Freeland, PEI) Boil together 1 cup shortening, 1 cup molasses and 1...

Great-grandmother's cake.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... Nobody likes it here so we buried it darkly at dead of night in the garden. Anne of Windy Poplars Recently, while re-reading Anne of Windy Poplars I came across the incident of the burial of the pumpkin preserves. This reminded me of a...

Quill query.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... One by one they recalled the memories of that vanished summer. Little Jocelyn Where is the secret field referred to by LM Montgomery in her writings? The Secret Field away at the back which you couldn't see at all and would never...

Sewing circle.(Poem)
March 22, 2005... Won't you stay and have tea with us? Pa Sloane's Purchase Teapot Breadcloth Materials: 5" square aida cloth (linen, ivory or white) DMC floss: 809 Delft blue 794 Cornflower blue 1. On a sewing machine, stitch...

The square garden.
March 22, 2005... ... the square garden was a square as ever and as disorderly, with the same old charming hodge-podge of fruit and flowers... The End of a Quarrel Our garden square is made up of twenty-one flowers, blossoms, fruits and vegetables found in...

Reminiscences of Wednesday evenings with LM Montgomery.(Lucy Maud Montgomery)
March 22, 2005... Memory went back to the years of her childhood... The Miracle at Carmody Each Wednesday evening during July and August, the Bideford Parsonage Museum opened its doors to spend the evening with LM Montgomery and friends. Guest readers...