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A prince of a place // Dreaming of red lobsters, blue waters and Green Gables

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19980104
Author:MARY GILLESPIE

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada On the green hills and red roads of Prince Edward Island, summer is succulent.

Remembered, dreamed of, planned for during the impossibly long winters that beseige this wee chunk of Atlantic Canada, it's a short and sacred season. It's a two-pound lobster just out of the sea, dripping real butter; it's a dip in the blue, blue water that rushes and recedes under the dramatic cliffs. It's reading native Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables in the clover, then going for ``Cowpuccinos'' at the local, defiantly high-fat ice-cream parlor.

And for residents, ...

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