Lucy Maud Montgomery created an adolescent girl who captivated me as an adult man when PBS began broadcasting a serialized adaptation of Anne of Green Gables in 1985.
"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it," wrote Lucy, who grew up a lonely and headstrong girl on Prince Edward Island. This farmhouse supposedly inspired the setting for her Anne of Green Gables novels, first published in 1908.
A more age-and-gender appropriate fan let me take a picture of her pilgrimage. I coveted her sun hat with built-in red braids on sale at the gargantuan gift shop.
Green Gables Heritage Place impeccably recreates the period furnishings and decorations of Lucy Montgomery's Victorian childhood.
Farm chores were a big part of Lucy's daily life.
But her imagination ran as free as Anne's in the bucolic setting captured so well on film.
Lucy is buried in nearby Cavendish. You can't miss it.
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