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Dear Kindred Spirits.(services of the publishing industry)(Editorial)
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Kindred Spirits
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December 22, 2005
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- Wagner, Sandy; Campbell, George
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Valancy ... could look out of the window, through the big pine boughs that actually touched it, away up Mistawis, white and lustrous as a pavement of pearl ... ~The Blue Castle
One evening in the Leaskdale manse in 1914, LM Montgomery read an entertaining article in the Bookman. It was a questionnaire Confessions in an Album on one's own preferences and dislikes as had been in vogue many years before. Maud spent that evening answering the queries, No. 2 Your favorite tree--most certainly the pine wrote Maud. I first got well acquainted with pines in Halifax Park. She wove them into her book Anne of the Island while in Leaskdale where many pine grew in Scott township.
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