Anne of Green Gables

“Playing Anne is something I was told I would never do”

The pandemic forced the Charlottetown production of Anne of Green Gables—The Musical on hiatus for the first time in decades before its much-anticipated return this past weekend.

Savannah Belsher-MacLean waSavannah Belsher-MacLean walks towards her store, Green Eye Designs on Victoria Row in Charlottetown, where the "topless Anne" shirts are available. (Photograph by John Morris)lks towards her store, Green Eye Designs, on Victoria Row in Charlottetown, PEI on September 18, 2020. (Photograph by John Morris)

The cheeky T-shirt that keeps Anne of Green Gables’s guardians on edge

Souvenir tees showing a red-braided woman doffing her bikini top have made a comeback—and she bears a striking resemblance to P.E.I.’s fictional icon

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s agonizing drug addiction

Diaries show the disastrous extent of the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ author’s addiction to prescription drugs, as well as parallels to our modern-day opioid crisis

So many kindred spirits! The hunt for a new Anne of Green Gables

Some 800 Canadian girls want to be the new Anne Shirley. Tip number one: The hair is negotiable.

How Anne of Green Gables would advise Princess Charlotte

Anne of Green Gables offers some words of wisdom to Princess Charlotte on hair, grudges and daydreaming

Our readers write: Letters from the print edition

‘If you can get off your ride without putting a kickstand down, it ain’t no motorcycle.’

Anne vs. Anne

Is Charlottetown big enough for two musicals devoted to the red-headed orphan?

‘Carrots’ gets made over as a blonde. What’s next? A 29-year-old Marilla?

[View the story “Anne of Green Gables via Cosmo Magazine” on Storify]

Mark of Green Gables

Day 11 on the Trans-Canada, Sackville, NB

Trans-Canada distance: 1,392 km

Leave Anne alone!

From 2010: An academic suggests Canada’s most beloved literary heroine had fetal alcohol syndrome

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A tale told by facts alone

L.M. Montgomery’s dark years gave us the poetry of Anne

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What they’re thinking on Queen Street and what to make of it all

In Toronto for the weekend and picked up the current issue of Now magazine. It is very—and very explicitly—in favour of the coalition. (Eye is pro-coalition too, if less rabidly. They also provide this helpful line graph.)