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childhood fantasies playing out on this   post office, chatting and gossiping with
          farmstead caressed by ocean breezes.  neighbors who dropped by to pick up their   Top: The farmhouse with green gables. Bottom:
                                             mail.  On July 5, 1911, Maud was married  Anne’s room  -- which has a single iron and brass bed
         “I belong  here, it is  in my blood,”  Maud   in the parlor of “Silver Bush” at nearby  and looks out over the brook, “Haunted Wood,” and
          once said.                         Park Corner, the home of other cousins.   “Orchard Slope.”  Opposite: The barn and outbuildings
                                                                                on the farm.
           Maud was born on November 30, 1874   During her childhood, she was an astute
          (the same day as Winston Churchill), in   observer of human interaction, foibles,
          a house at nearby Clifton Corner, one of   dreams, and challenges.  And she had a
          several relatives' homes open for tours   huge appreciation of fashion, nature, and
          (some family members still reside in the   the scenic landscape of PEI—the trees,
          area).  Reared in her maternal grandpar- flowers, birds,  plants, bubbling brooks,
          ents' home, as a teen and young adult she   rivers, seashore, farm fields--all reflected
          helped out in the kitchen home-based   in her books.


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