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This past summer, when Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado visited the L.M. Montgomery Institute, Vivian Macdonald, Montgomery’s granddaughter-in-law, and Kate Macdonald-Butler, Montgomery’s granddaughter, presented the institute with the donation of the Marco Polo Platter. Below is the account prepared by Dr. Elizabeth Epperly, founder of the L.M. Montgomery Institute: In a letter dated May 26,…

We are so thrilled that Audrey Loiselle agreed to give the LMMI a full report of what happened at the very first international conference about L.M. Montgomery outside PEI, in Japan. It sounds like a tremendous success. Congratulations, Kristie Collins and the other organizers!   L.M. Montgomery International Conference at Reitaku University By, Audrey Loiselle…

I am thrilled that Nimbus Publishing is issuing a new edition of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery for which I served as editor, selecting pages and commenting on their contexts and arrangements. As with her journals, the scrapbooks invite sleuthing, and I look forward to more of what others detect about Montgomery’s eye and…

The Institute is thrilled to chat with Rita Bode and Jean Mitchell, editors of the latest collection of essays about L.M. Montgomery, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s). Nominated for the 2018 Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best work in Canadian literary criticism, this collection uses a variety of scholarly lenses, such as anthropology and ecology,…

There are many newly digitized artifacts uploaded to the KindredSpaces website for readers of LM Montgomery. This is a copy of the “Island Hymn,” which includes lyrics by LM Montgomery. Professor Harry Watts did this project because he believed that Prince Edward Island needed a song of patriotism. He invited LM Montgomery, who was not…

William O’Grady, a professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii, travelled to Korea in 2012 where he discovered a museum dedicated to Anne of Green Gables and L.M. Montgomery on a small Island off the coast of Jeju Island, a province of Korea. I sat down with O’Grady to chat about his experience and…

Last month, Kate Macdonald Butler, Elizabeth Epperly and Kate Scarth visited the L.M. Montgomery Public School in Charlottetown because the students had created art inspired by Montgomery’s legacy. Today, Kate S. reports from the field about what happened that day, the project and much more. *** Some grade 5 and 6 students at the L.M.…

The biography House of Dreams: The Life of L. M. Montgomery, written by Liz Rosenberg and illustrated by Julie Morstad, is advertised as “the first for young readers to include revelations about [Montgomery’s] last days and to encompass the complexity of a brilliant and sometimes troubled life.” Here, Rosenberg and Morstad discuss their creation process. Liz Rosenberg is a poet, best-selling novelist,…

The 13th Biennial L.M. Montgomery and Reading Conference is featuring an exhibit from author and professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, David Hickey. I asked Hickey to describe his exhibit, “Unearthly Pleasures: The Artful Astronomy of L.M. Montgomery,” which will be exhibited at the university all next week.   THE ARTFUL ASTRONOMY OF L.M. MONTGOMERY…

Dr. Elizabeth Epperly is having a pretty good few weeks. Last week, the LMMI celebrated its 25th anniversary, she is going to be a Keynote Speaker at the L.M. Montgomery and Reading conference in June, and this week she has a brand new picture book that she co-created with her sister and illustrator, Carolyn Epperly, Summer in the Land of Anne. You’re…