Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tue July 29th – Cavendish and Green Gables


Tuesday July 29th – Cavendish and Green Gables
Today it was supposed to be thundershowers but we awoke to a bright beautiful sunny day. Packed a picnic lunch and off to see Green Gables in Cavendish. Its part of Canada's National Park and historic buildings stuff so we got in free with our Discovery Pass...it has certainly paid its way since we bought it in Alberta last year. So we retraced the footsteps of Lucy Maude Montgomery and visited the Green Gable house...its not strictly original but has been decorated and furnished in the style of Green Gables in the novel. We walked through Lovers Lane to Balsam Hollow and then over to the Haunted Woods. All places from Montgomery's life and in the Anne novels  The recreation of this 19th century icon is actually very well done. We saw the footings that remain of the McNeil home where LMM’s grandparents raised her from a baby after her mother died when she was almost 2 yr old,  and the lane that she would run home from school. There were numerous early pictures of her life and thus it was easy to reconstruct her childhood and draw the similarities to Anne (with an E of course).
Lovers Lane
We got a few groceries and drove along the Cavendish beach front, stopping for a while on the beach and listening to the ocean. BBQ pork tenderloin and a Skype with Grant finished off our wonderful day.





Haunted Woods
Whats left of LM Mongomery's childhood home
View from the ruins
Lunch on the beach

Not a soul in sight - well one anyway!

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