Monday, December 11th, 2023
P.E.I. oil painting from 1890s being restored to its former lustre
‘I knew that we would be able to really bring it back to life,’ says restoration expert The Canadian Conservation Institute is restoring a P.E.I. painting from the 1890s, by a “bosom friend” of Lucy Maud Montgomery, that was donated to the Bideford Parsonage Museum. The artist, Edith England, met the Anne of Green Gables author in the late 1800s when Montgomery began teaching at the Bideford school in western Prince Edward Island. The two remained close friends for many years, as documented in Montgomery’s journals. A few years ago, England’s family offered herRead more
From soul to soreness, the Island Walk will make you question everything
As challenging as it is serene, the 700-kilometre P.E.I walk is an emotional, exploratory journey As gentle-sounding as it is, the Island Walk is a test. The roughly 700-kilometre roundtrip walk around P.E.I., which takes many people more than 30 days to accomplish, will weigh on the joints and muscles as much as it does the mind. The journey will make you question just about everything. The answers are found somewhere along the way. Half the trek takes place on the Island’s hard-packed Confederation Trail, the other half takes walkersRead more