Read about Montgomery’s first love, Herman Leard, and the picture of him that she admired and put into her journal. Emily Woster sleuths out the story of the mystery man behind the illustration that Montgomery thought was “as much like Herman as a photograph.”

Christy Woster continues her “artifactual” exploration of Montgomery by collecting and identifying more of the clippings in her scrapbooks (as seen in Betsy Epperly’s Imagining Anne).

In last year’s Shining Scroll we included the story of one of the soldiers in Montgomery’s book dedications, Morley Shier. We continue this theme with a feature on World War I author, John McCrae (In Flander’s Fields) and his ties with Islander Dr. Andrew Macphail. Read how L.M. Montgomery, O.B.E., Sir Andrew Macphail, O.B.E., Lieutentant Colonel Dr. McCrae, and Lord Earl Grey had a royal time together on Prince Edward Island.