Prince Edward Island

We are staying in Summerside having rainy days. We drove a 150 mile loop up to North Cape where there is a wind farm and had lunch in Tignish. Paul and Adelle ordered "Fries with the Works" which is a tower of fries, gravy, hamburger and peas on top. Melted cheese if desired.
I liked being there with the locals many of whom were working men also enjoying Fries with the Works.

We drove to "Crooked Barn Pottery Studio". No one was there but the door was open. Inside the sign on the desk said "self-seve today". High trust level around PEI.

Acadian country: we saw this impressive Catholic Church and visited an Acadian Provincial Museum.

Two photos from the Acadian Museum:

1. Jean-Pierre Gallant et ses fils (John Peter Gallant and sons)

2. Five generations of the Poirer family, 1903; this family is from Tignish and features 5 generations of Acadians born between 1806 and 1898. L to R: Joseph, Francois, Jean, Gilbert, & Colas.

Dollar stores are popular here. So are inexpensive rain ponchos.

Canada Day Monday, July 1. Happy Dominion Day celebration in Sobey's grocery store.

Saint Dunstan Cathedral in old town Charlottestown.

In Charlottestown at the Anne of Green Gables store.

World War I (Great War) monument in front of the Province House National Historic Site. It was here in 1864, within the Confederation Chamber, that 23 representatives of Britain's North American colonies first discussed the creation of Canada.

We were too early in the summer season to see actors in period garb wander the halls performing a reenactment of the famous conference.

Guess who stars in the popular local musical advertised in the newspaper?

I bought and read Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908, two days ago; the descriptions of natural beauty are a major feature of the book. I am not seeing what the author described; instead there are a many tidy, scenic, well-kept farms here.

Maybe the island was wilder in 1908.