The Shining Scroll summarizes the society’s activities, newly published books and
events related to Montgomery, news from PEI and special articles and research by the Society’s members. See details
of each edition on the Index page. Please
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The Shining Scroll periodical
2012 part 2 Montgomery’s China, Rug-Hooking in the Montgomery Books,
Montgomery’s Honeymoon Trousseau, The Macdonalds’ 1911 Honeymoon Tour in Scotland, Montgomery Day and Diamond
Jubilee Celebration in Leaskdale, Patty’s Place in Nova Scotia, Montgomery Historian Dr. Francis Bolger, new
Montgomery-related book, DVD, and TV series, auction, and more
2012 part 1 Chronicles of Avonlea
centennial,
the Dedication of Epperly Plaza, Friends
of the L. M. Montgomery
Institute and fund-raising auction, Lighthouse
Touring on the North Shore, 2012 Montgomery Conference on Cultural
Memory, In Search of L. M. Montgomery
in the Early 1970s, The Value of Montgomery Books, Discovering Fragments
of Island History in Montgomery’s Stories.
2011 Part 1: The history of the
Leaskdale Manse Museum, the Lucy Maud Montgomery At Home in Leaskdale Centennial Celebration, and a presentation from the
conference -- The Very Soul of the Universe Must Ache With Anguish: L.M. Montgomery, Leaskdale,
and Loss in The Great War
2011 Part 2: Montgomery’s 100 year wedding anniversary,
L. M. Montgomery’s Halifax: The Real Life Inspiration for Anne of the Island, The Dalhousie Girls, Grace
Lin: A Kindred Spirit, Anita Webb and Her Aunt Maud, a unique edition of Anne’s
House of Dreams, The Ever Expanding Montgomery Bibliography, Montgomery related events, and our Literary Society
meetings.
December 2010 Part 3: This issue features many stories centered on Prince Edward Island. Carolyn Collins reveals the story behind “Captain Jim’s
lighthouse” from Anne’s House of Dreams in her article on Cape Tryon and the “Four Winds Lighthouse.”
Carolyn also has an update on “Melrose Cottage,” the home of Montgomery’s aunt Margaret Montgomery Sutherland
and an artifact from the ship, the Marco Polo. We note with sadness the passing of Montgomery friends and champions,
Joan O’Brien, Ruth Campbell, and Georgie Campbell MacLeod. Mary Beth Cavert writes the story of a Montgomery friend
in Leaskdale, Margaret Leask Mustard, to introduce the 2011 centennial and celebration of Montgomery’s arrival in Ontario.
Lastly, Carolyn Collins describes one of the most rare of all Montgomery books, a little book of poetry from 1905.
December 2010 Part 2: an
overview of the 2010 Montgomery conference held on Prince Edward Island, “L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature;”
Christy Woster’s research on the book that inspired a very young Lucy Maud Montgomery to start keeping a journal, A
Bad Boy’s Diary; a discovery of an “Anne” dress pattern; and a summary of the first Laura Ingalls Wilder
conference, “Laurapalooza.”
December 2010 Part 1: Collecting and Sharing Montgomery Books; Anne of Australia - Montgomery's Australian editions.
December 2009: Montgomery's Rainbow Valley
dedication to Goldwin Lapp and the Other World War I Soldiers she knew; Montgomery's Japanese Kimono; Needlework in the
Anne Series, and, of course, much more.
September 2009: the early reviews of Anne of Avonlea,
the book dedication to Harriet Gordon Smith, the Bideford Parsonage, Dr. Mollie Gillen, The Blythes Are Quoted, and
more.
December 2008: the
2008 L.M. Montgomery Conference, Prince Edward Island;
New Edition of The Anne of Green Gables Treasury; The Nine Lives of L. M. Montgomery musical; L.M. Montgomery Conference, Guelph, Ontario;,” L.M. Montgomery Literary Society Meetings and Anne 100 Events; A Writer Forgotten: The Story
of Edith Russell, by Christy Woster; L.M. Montgomery’s Book Dedications in Rainbow Valley: Robert Brooks,
116th Battalion, C.E.F. by Mary Beth Cavert; The Open Fellowship of Kindred Spirits by Vanessa Brown.
October 2008: 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.
2002:
keywords: Montgomery International Conference, George
Maureen Campbell, Elizabeth Epperly, Ruth Macdonald, Dr. Bolger, John Jennie Macneill, Montgomery Homestead, Elizabeth Waterston,
Mary Rubio, A Tangled Web, Anne of Ingleside, Carolyn Collins, Picturing A Canadian Life, Janet Lunn, Irene Gammel, Christina
Wyss Eriksson, Christy Woster, Penny Shreck, Elizabeth Woolner, Lewis Woolner, Frederic Woolner, Sarah Reidel, 1919 Anne of
Green Gables silent movie, Leaskdale Manse, Jim Gaboury, Carol Gaboury, Wilda Clark, Kathy David Wasylenky, Pat Millner, Elsie
Davidson, Gerri Lynn O'Connor, Kelly Boehm, Janet Ecker, Kate Macdonald, Nine Elliot, St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Gayle
Clark, Mary Beth Cavert, Emily Climbs, Arthur John Lockhart, Pastor Felix, Henry Longfellow, Evangeline, Nate Lockhart, Winterport
Maine.
1997: The Manse is Declared a Canadian Historical Site, Fire at Green Gables, News
from PEI friends, Bala Celebration of
Macdonald Family Features Mollie Gillen, Norval
Dedication of the LMM Garden, Emily
of New Moon Being Filmed, Gog/Magog
Project Underway, New Books – including The Anne of Green Gables Christmas Treasury
Special Presentations
Honoring the Montgomery Preservationists: At
the 2008 L.M. Montgomery conference, Beth and Carolyn made a special presentation on the opening day. They identified a group
of remarkable people who were the first to begin to preserve the legacy of LM Montgomery in a variety of ways. Every fan of
LMM should know about these wonderful and generous Montgomery pioneers! Read about: Leta Andrew, Francis W.P. Bolger, James and Ruth Campbell, Maud, Amy, and Georgie Campbell, Wilda
and Harold Clark, Mollie Gillen, Ruth Macdonald, Jennie and John Macneill, Heath and Mary Ella Montgomery, Elizabeth Waterston,
Anita, Marion, Pauline, Lorraine, and Keith Webb. Then, view the video honoring the Montgomery pioneers on our Montgomery Videos page. The music (which begins after a few seconds) is a gaelic love song performed by
the College of Piping Celtic Singers on PEI.
Selected
Articles from The Shining Scroll
The Woolner Jug The Shining Scroll 2004. Montgomery's family heirloom which was featured in
her book, A Tangled Web.
Muskoka Dream The Shining Scroll 1995. L.M. Montgomery at Bala
Ontario, creating The Blue Castle.
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