Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery fell in love with Reverend Ewen MacDonald, the minister of the local Presbyterian Church and agreed to marry him on the stipulation that the wedding take place after her grandmother’s passing. This was in 1906;Continue reading “OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery”
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OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery qualified for her teacher’s license at Prince Wales College in 1895 and spent a few years teaching at Bideford, located in the western portion of Prince Edward Island. HerContinue reading “OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery”
Happy Birthday William Shakespeare!
Today is William Shakespeare’s birthday. The Bard of Avon, whose words expressed the joys and tragedies of humanity, our gratitude… “As an unperfect actor upon the stage Who with much fear is put besides his part Or some fierce thing, replete with too much rage Whose strengths abundance weakens his own heart So I, forContinue reading “Happy Birthday William Shakespeare!”
OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
“It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables As a child, Lucy Maud Montgomery spent much of her time in the care of her grandparents, Lucy and Alexander Macneill, who ran the Cavendish, PEI post office. After her mother died, her father spent mostContinue reading “OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery”
OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery, Maud to her friends, writes from her life experiences. The daughter of Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill Montgomery, she experienced loss at a very early age. Her mother, stricken by tuberculosis,Continue reading “OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery”
OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.” Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery is one of Canada’s most cherished authors, best known for the world-renowned Anne of Green Gables. BornContinue reading “OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
March 17, 2013 is officially St. Patrick’s Day. OnTheRoad is celebrating this auspicious event by thumbing through Charles Gidley’s “The Book of Kells,” a remarkable resource for those, like me, who enjoying looking at pictures as they read. The Book of Kells, often times referred to as the Book of Columba, is Ireland’s greatestContinue reading “Happy St. Patrick’s Day”
OTR Celebrates International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day. OTR celebrates this auspicious moment with America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins. This book lives up to its title with page turning narratives that commemorates the achievements of American women over four centuries. “If women want any rights more than they’s got,Continue reading “OTR Celebrates International Women’s Day”
OTR Celebrates Lucille Clifton
“You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.” ― Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 As we leave February, the month that Canada celebrates Black History, I wanted to include a poem by Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010). She focused on family life and on the African-American experience.Continue reading “OTR Celebrates Lucille Clifton”
Happy Birthday Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” Edna St. Vincent Millay Today, in 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay rushed into this world. Born in Rockland, Maine, her parents were Cora Lounella, a nurse,Continue reading “Happy Birthday Edna St. Vincent Millay”
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