The Green Gables farm was owned by the Macneill family, who were cousins of author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The farm's name is derived from the rich dark green paint of the gables on the farmhouse. The main exterior walls of the farmhouse are painted white.
Montgomery visited the farm as a young girl and based her best-selling Anne of Green Gables series of books on the Green Gables farm. She drew romantic inspiration from the house, as well as the surrounding area, including the "Haunted Woods", "Lovers Lane", and "Balsam Hollow."
Upon Montgomery's death, her wake was conducted from the living room of the Green Gables farmhouse for several days prior to her funeral at the local Presbyterian church and burial in the nearby Cavendish Community Cemetery
The day we visited cast members from the play "Anna and Gilbert" were performing some song and dance.
Fronting the Gulf of St. Lawrence, this broad natural sand beach stretches for 5 miles from the entrance to New London Bay in the west, to the red sandstone cliffs at Cavendish East in the east.
That afternoon we finally found a decent pizza, turns out in seafood restaurant in Rustico.
The evening we went to another "kay lee" this time at a hall in Stanley Beach. The Ross Family was performing, a brother and two sisters. They performed the music and dancing the island is so famous for, along with a tribute to their cajun "cousins" in Louisiana. The pace and intensity of the show was amazing. Later in the show their mother joined them in a step dance routine.
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