CBC PEI covers Dr. Epperly’s appointment to Order of Canada. Click here to read.
Tag: Prince Edward Island
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.
Long-lost L.M. Montgomery postcards discovered, donated back to P.E.I.
– Even though she knew what they were, Epperly said turning over the postcards and seeing Montgomery’s handwriting was “this shock … it’s her handwriting. Because she has very distinctive, and sometimes very difficult, handwriting, and to see that and to see the ink changing where she dipped the pen to write, it’s like treasure to find this.”-
Hearing “from” 50 Years Earlier
Matt Rainnie of CBC Radio Mainstreet, Charlottetown, interviewed me as the first student to register at the newly created University of Prince Edward Island. Here it is:
-Betsy
Reviewed in Atlantic Books Today
Project Bookmark
Project Bookmark unveiled the very first Bookmark for Prince Edward Island — a poem by L.M. Montgomery describing the view from her bedroom window on the Macneill Homestead site, where she grew up, learned to read and write, and composed hundreds of poems and short stories.
You can read more about it here: https://www.projectbookmarkcanada.ca/bookmarks-21-25#21-the-gable-window
Summer in the Land of Anne
Please Join us for the Launch of Summer in the Land of Anne!
My sister and I have an illustrated story book (sixteen original paintings!) coming out with Acorn Press on Prince Edward Island! The story is about two sisters in Virginia who travel to PEI after their mother reads them Anne of Green Gables. Exploring the Land of Anne, six-year-old Elspeth and eleven-year-old Willa discover something new and powerful about reading and imagining.
Please join us for our book launch!
-Betsy
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 