Elisabeth Egan of the New York Times asked such good questions in our email and telephone interviews. I am so glad the LMMI got into this piece!
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AGG exhibit gets great media coverage!
Emily Woster (curator) and I (contributing consultant) are thrilled with the interest in the annemanuscript.ca site since its launching on January 19, 2022.
Some 10,000 people from 50+ countries have visited the site so far.
See articles in Quill & Quire, the Globe and Mail, CTV, CBC, and in Emily Woster’s hometown newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota. The exhibit has been noted on sites in Japan, Ukraine and Poland.
Media responding right away to the new site!
The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery and the Creation of Anne | Exhibition Opening
Emily gives a wonderful introduction to the site at the official launching on January 19, 2023, at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, with a packed room and people linked in from all over the world. Click here to watch the exhibition opening.
At long last! The digitized AGG manuscript is launched!
Emily Woster (curator) and I (contributing consultant) had so much fun working on this for the past two and a half years. Click here for the site: The Anne of Green Gables Manuscript: L.M. Montgomery and the Creation of Anne
News about the honorary degree from Memorial
UPEI kindly shared news of the honorary doctorate. Click here to read their announcement.
Celebration Day Memorial University
Excited to receive a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Memorial University of Newfoundland on October 20th, 2022!
-Betsy
Coming in June 2022 — “Passionate Vision”!
In thematically linked presentations, two keynote speakers Elizabeth R. Epperly and Eri Muraoka contend that learning demands revision, for artists themselves and for those who study them and their work. Click here for more.
Missing Budge Wilson
Melanie Fishbane has done a lovely job, for the LMMI, in capturing Budge’s inimitable spirit!
CBC Compass Interview
Amazing how an interviewer can compress 35 minutes of interview into less than 3 minutes of video! Beth Cavert and I are so excited about the discovery and also about putting the postcards into the full context of the letters (Beth’s Complete Correspondence will do this).
-Betsy
Click here for the video: Lucy Maud Montgomery. Long-lost letters. History. Intrigue.
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 