Well, a lot of today was about All Things "Anne." Get ready for lots of photos! It was overcast, but we did not have any rain today. We only had two things on our agenda for today--seeing Green Gables and the ocean (actually the Sea of St. Lawrence). PEI being small, it didn't take long to find Green Gables. It is in the town of Cavendish (Avonlea in the book). It actually belonged to the author's grandfather's cousins--an unmarried brother-sister (as in the book). Lucy Maud Montgomery (the author), lived on PEI for most of her growing-up-years. She went to live with her grandparents when her mother died (when Lucy was 3) and stayed on the island until she married. She loved the island as Anne did and regretted having to leave. The house is now a museum, with the barn and outbuildings re-constructed. In the barn has a buggy and exhibit about life back in the 1880s when the book is set. There is a hat with braids in the buggy for photo ops, and our children (and us!) had to try it out too!
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| Is it Shelby or is it Anne Shirley? |
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| Joshua Shirley and Randy Matthew |
We got to walk around the outside of the house, the inside, and see the Haunted Wood, the Lover's Lane, and Anne's Avonlea. There were two hiking paths--the Haunted Wood and Lover's Lane--each about a mile long with informational plaques. One included Lucy's childhood home and the site of the school she (and Anne) attended which is now long gone. I hadn't realized the school was that close to the woods and away from the main part of town.
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| The front of The House of Green Gables |
All over the island, lupines grow wild. Heartbreaking, when I think of how carefully I planted the seeds and cultivated the seedlings in my own garden at home to grow the native lupines. But they are absolutely beautiful; I had to stop and take a few photos.
Tomorrow we will take the ferry to Nova Scotia and spend two nights in Halifax.
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