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Anne's Land

Wayne Curtis narrates images from Prince Edward Island—fictional home of Anne of Green Gables and real-life home of the woman who created her.

Music: "Paddy Fahy's Reel" and "The Mountain Top" by Chulrua

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Land of Green Gables

 October 2008

By Wayne Curtis

"In Avonlea, I talked to a 'village resident' in a minister’s collar, who told me he was also a minister in real life and had officiated at more than 500 weddings of Japanese couples, mostly at the Anne of Green Gables Museum. This is the farm where Montgomery herself was married, and the couples go to great lengths to duplicate her ceremony, right down to the wedding cake, which is made from the same recipe."

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