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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 19970615
Author:Pike, Helen-Chantal

Special to the Herald

"I was born, praise to the gods, in Prince Edward Island, that colorful little land of ruby and emerald and sapphire."

So wrote Lucy Maud Montgomery in "Anne of Green Gables," a series of books that put Prince Edward Island on the tourism map.

Every July 5, Montgomery's wedding to the Rev. Ewan MacDonald is re-enacted in the front parlor of Silver Bush in Park Corner. Every August there is a three-day Lucy Maud Montgomery Festival in Cavendish, site of the Green Gables House and of the author's final resting place. And if that's not enough, the ...

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