Tipped off by Rachelle, our host for the week, I learned that Lucy Maud Montgomery spent many years living nearby here in Ontario. I looked up the museum, found it to be located only 15 minutes from the house, and discovered that today there would be a talk given by the author of the new YA novel, Maud, a fictionalized story of LMM’s teenage years. A stroke of serendipity, to be sure!

I wish that the girls had been with me as Melanie, the author, gave a great speech crediting her fan-girl love of Laura Ingalls Wilder for her journey to English professor, historian and writer of Historical Fiction. I think they’d really have gotten a kick out of it.

Given her love of all things Laura and LMM I am sure that Melanie and I are kindred spirits already and I can’t wait to dig into Maud. Just the cover has me falling in love!

So, in short, I met some lovely ladies, toured their LMM museum exhibit, sat in the same beautiful church that LMM did and was really happily surprised to be able to find a bit of her spirit outside of PEI.