{"id":6594,"date":"2014-08-30T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2014-08-30T11:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T17:05:07","slug":"searching-for-anne-of-green-gables-on-prince-edward-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2014\/08\/searching-for-anne-of-green-gables-on-prince-edward-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for ‘Anne of Green Gables’ on Prince Edward Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It was so nice to see this article pop up on my Facebook newsfeed this morning. I remember the first time I saw Kevin Sullivan\u2019s 1985 television movie about the red-haired Canadian orphan. I was immediately captivated by Megan Follow\u2019s performance \u2013 she was Anne. And Richard Farnsworth\u2019s Matthew \u2013 he reminded me so much of my grandfather that when he died I thought I had lost \u00a0my grandpa all over again \u2013 and I admit it, I cried.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\nHere is Ann Mah\u2019s \u00a0informative account in the New York Times (August 21, 2014) about her investigative visit to \u201cthe writer\u2019s island\u201d and it makes me want to go there, too.<\/p>\nMy first evening on Prince Edward Island, I found myself on the shore, scrambling across sun-bleached beach grass to circle an abandoned lighthouse. The Gulf of St. Lawrence crashed in moody bursts before me, the water reflecting the deepening gray of the sky. My feet sank into drifts of sand until I turned inland, down a spongy red clay road that edged a verdant meadow. In the distance, the cheerful lights of my bed-and-breakfast, a rambling 19th-century farmhouse, beckoned.<\/p>\nLess than an hour earlier, I had been driving past a spangly strip of tourist attractions \u2014 miniature golf courses, water theme parks \u2014 that promised \u201cfamily fun\u201d with suspicious exuberance. But on this country lane, with the roar of the gulf filling my ears, I could almost imagine myself a solitary traveler and not one of the thousands of tourists who flock every year to the green gabled house only a few miles from where I stood.<\/p>\nI had come to this Canadian island to follow in the footsteps of L. M. Montgomery, who made her island home famous with her novel \u201cAnne of Green Gables.\u201d An instant best-seller when it was published in 1908, the book tells the story of the verbose, red-haired Anne Shirley \u2014 an 11-year-old orphan who is accidentally sent to a middle-aged brother and sister instead of the boy they had requested to help with their farm. Starved for love, with a vibrant imagination and a knack for comic mishap, Anne has charmed readers for over a century, including Mark Twain, who proclaimed her \u201cthe dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the immortal Alice.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/24\/travel\/searching-for-anne-of-green-gables-on-prince-edward-island.html?WT.mc_id=E-FACEBOOK-OS-0814&WT.mc_ev=click&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1406224786000&bicmet=1419443986000&smid=fb-nytimes&kwp_0=2947&_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=Travel&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CLICK HERE to continue reading at the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was so nice to see this article pop up on my Facebook newsfeed this morning. I remember the first time I saw Kevin Sullivan\u2019s 1985 television movie about the red-haired Canadian orphan. 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