Why Cavendish? The area around Cavendish
and New London is Green Gables territory.
Just about any business you can imagine has found a way to call itself
Green Gables something. This is the home of Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30,
1874 – April 24, 1942) the author of Anne of Green Gables. The best seller
published in 1908.
In the story Anne of Green
Gables, Anne, a young orphan from
the fictional community of Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia (based upon the real
community of New London), is sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert. Being siblings in their fifties and sixties, they
had decided to adopt a boy from the orphanage to help Matthew run their farm.
They live at Green Gables, their Avonlea farmhouse on Prince Edward Island.
Through a misunderstanding, the orphanage sends Anne Shirley. Anne is a quick, bright, chatter box who
loves to make up her own words and has no problem adapting to farm life and
gets herself into predicament after predicament.
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| The Green Gables House and Property is now a National Park |
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| This is one contented cow! |
Lovers Lane. Then and now
P.E.I. has very fertile
ground. There are huge farms in the
interior that look like a giant patchwork quilt. The land is gentle rolling hills that can
either end as cliffs or red sand beaches along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
There is a blend of agriculture and fishing much like the Chesapeake Bay area.
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| Huge Carrots |
Farming of shellfish is an upcoming enterprise
You can arrive on the island by
bridge, ferry or airplane. None of which
are cheap. No you don’t need to clean
your glasses the toll of a car (roundtrip) is $44.50. I said to young lady taking the toll “I guess
you don’t have many commuters?” She
laughed and said “None”.
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