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LM Montgomery Literary Society Anne Celebration Photos, April 2008
We are planning ways to help
our communities celebrate the centennial of Anne of Green Gables. Please look at our celebration page for ideas and this
page for currently scheduled activities.
Scroll down to see the summer events!
July 24, 2008
The Red Balloon Bookshop http://www.redballoonbookshop.com, in collaboration with the
L. M. Montgomery Literary Society, hosted A Tea Party to Celebrate 100 Years of Anne of Green Gables.
The event was held on July 24, 2008 at the historic University Club of Saint Paul on Summit Avenue http://www.universityclubofstpaul.com/summit.html. A hundred guests attended and viewed the three rooms of 17 + tables of L.M. Montgomery Literary Society exhibits
about the author of Anne of Green Gables as well as displays of collectible Anne dolls, books about Montgomery, early
edition books, several editions of the new Anne prequel book, and many artifacts related to Anne, Prince
Edward Island, and the author.
Children acquired freckles, had their photos taken, and visited
the activity table, "Avonlea School." After the luncheon, the guests sang Montgomery's Island Hymn and the title
song from the 1919 silent film, Anne of Green Gables. Then, the 43 children paraded to the front to sit down and
listen to story teller, Pati Kachel, read the book, Lucy Maud Montgomery
by Elizabeth Macleod. A drawing was held and many children received gifts from generous publishers, book stores, and the Literary
Society (Christy!).
Our thanks to Sally Rigler and Christy Woster for their superb organizing
skills.
Please
enjoy the photos of this splendid event [coming soon].
May 31, 2008
The Red Balloon hosted a wonderful 100th Birthday Party for "Anne of Green Gables" May 31, 2008 at
their store on Grand Avenue in St. Paul.
Christy Woster and Penny Shreck brought lots of display materials, crafting supplies, and scrapbooks
along with door-prizes to give out. Pati Kachel entertained the capacity crowd with stories about LMM and Anne (from Elizabeth
McLeod's new children's biography on LMM and Dierdre Kessler's new Anne of Green Gables for young readers).
Carolyn and Christina signed copies of the new Anne of Green Gables Treasury - Special Commemorative Edition.
Ann Johnson drove in from Hastings to help.
To top everything off, the Red Balloon served a huge "Anne" birthday cake, decorated beautifully with
a picture of the original AGG cover.
April 19, 2008
April 19th, 2008 was an amazing day for our Anne 100th celebration. The displays
brought in by our members were wonderful -- attractive, informative, interesting, and impressive. Sarah and Pat
Riedel brought a tableful of antique household tools that intrigued children and adults; they also brought beautiful
display cases that held a large number of LMM first editions for visitors to view. Pati Kachel did two story-telling
events and also provided a large selection of vintage dresses, hats, aprons, gloves, etc., for visitors to dress up in and
have their pictures made.
Other displays filled the room with information on Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery,
LMM's Journals, LMM's Scrapbooks, The LMM Institute and Conference, Canada, Prince Edward Island, Green Gables (past and present),
our LMM Literary Society, translations of AGG around the world, Anne dolls, The AGG Treasury, Quilting,
Flowers, Fashion -- everything you can imagine. Our members are, indeed, talented as well as dedicated! Christy
Woster made a banner of LMM book covers; Penny provided Anne birthday cakes; Ann Johnson brought pink lemonade; Christy even
brought enough Sloppy Joes to feed us through the day. Emily Woster came down from St. Scholastica to help with the
many children's activities (freckle-painting, bookmarks, decorated bags, and more); door prizes were given out periodically,
some furnished by the Canadian Consulate, some by Penguin Books.
Christy and Penny also put together a fabulous "Anne" display in the library's display case that
will be up through the rest of the month. [By the way, Betty Heath and Ann Johnson have also put up equally fabulous "Anne"
displays in their local libraries in Bayport, Woodbury, and Hastings.]
Many of the display materials can be re-used at other events in coming months. More about those
in future emails.
We lost count of the number of visitors -- adults and children -- at about 150! Truly a fine
turn-out. And most of them seemed to spend a good long time studying the displays and talking with our members. We
have many stories to relate that point to a successful, enjoyable celebration.
To Christy Woster who headed up the committee to put this celebration together -- we can't
possibly thank you, Christy, for all the time, energy, and effort you put into this. Especially
with the added complication of having hand surgery a couple of weeks ago!
Last summer:
Carolyn Collins participated in Prince Edward Island's
"Anne 2008" events by speaking at some community libraries about life on PEI during the time of L.M. Montgomery's youth and
the setting of Anne of Green Gables.
Her presentation was "Around the Waterloo Stove:
the Heartbeat of Green Gables." She explained how LMM used the kitchen for writing Anne of Green Gables as well as
the room's function for food preparation, laundry and all the activites that required the iron cookstove in "Anne's day."
Join the L.M. Montgomery
Literary Society
L.M. Montgomery Literary Society meetings are organized by Carolyn
Collins and members are notified by email and phone. If you would like to be included, send your email address to Carolyn Collins or Mary Beth Cavert.
We provide the content of our programs. In recent years, members have presented
their papers that were given at Montgomery conferences at the University of Prince Edward Island. One member is related to
L.M. Montgomery (her father was a first cousin) and shared her family history with us as well as performing the song, "Anne
Theme," from the long lost 1919 silent film of Anne of Green Gables.
We also are treated to wonderful meals at member's homes and to their collections
of books, home-made quilts, and folk art.
In the summer of 2007 and during the winter holidays, Pati Kachel
was the featured storyteller at the Anne of Green Gables Tea and the Victorian Afternoon Tea offered by The Avalon
Tea Room in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. www.avalontearoom.com 651-653-3822
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