I was surprised to find Tellhistory among the top sites in Google searches on “rum running.” Most visitors to this blog apparently come to read about Prince Edward Island where my parents built a summer house. This year Prince Edward Island, the “gentle island,” celebrates the 100th anniversary of the novel Anne of Green Gables.
As the summer tourist season approaches, I’ll add more posts about some of my favorite PEI museums and events.
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In a 1996 New Yorker article, “Anne of Red Hair,” Calvin Trillin wrote about the Japanese fascination with Lucy Maude Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Japanese tourism to PEI. For a time, many of the business signs at tourist stops were written in English, French, and Japanese. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Earth Observation Research Center takes you right to heart of Anne’s Land in satellite images accompanied by a nice overview of the region and province.
Scroll down and click on the second image and you can see clearly that the Green Gables Museum, Haunted Woods, Lover’s Lane, and Lake of Shining Waters are all situated around a golf course.
Watch the red double-decker buses roll down University Avenue in Charlottetown on IslandCam One.
Ian Scott, a former executive director of the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation, is an avid Prince Edward Island history blogger, sharing articles about island heritage issues and historic sites on a number of blogs including PEI History and the Provincial Museum of Prince Edward Island.
