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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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