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1900s: Anne is off to college and has to leave PEI for a while…
1900s: Anne is off to college and has to leave PEI for a while…
As her childhood friends get married and move away, Anne too leaves Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport. Although Priscilla Grant and Gilbert Blythe are there, too, she feels lonely and out of place. But Anne soon makes new friends, one of whom is rich, handsome Roy Gardner, whose attentions to Anne make Gilbert very jealous…
Despite the story of Anne being centered here in this novel, the real essence of the novel is firmly routed in PEI.However the college days are a fun way of seeing Anne survive and get into scrapes in a new place with new surroundings.
Everything is remarkably close by and the spirit of Anne is embedded in the island itself from the soil to the lake of Shining waters and the cherry blossom trees. Sadly the horse and carts have been replaced by cars but they do still exist for the tourists.
The Lucy Maud Montgomery home is one quarter mile East of Green Gables and is decorated to look like the house as it would have been like in Anne’s day, with her room and the white picket fence exactly as she left it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery birthplace. No visit to the island would be complete without visiting the house of the lady who brought Anne into the world.
Author/Guide: L.M. Montgomery Destination: Prince Edward Island, Kingsport Departure Time: Early 1900s
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