Did anyone else ever watch Emily Of New Moon? Orphaned Emily goes to live with her mother's odd family in a big house called New Moon. She has "second site" and communicates with ghosts. It was a really good PBS series in the 90's and now there are 13 episodes on Hulu. HERE. If you liked Little House or Anne Of Green Gables, you'll love this one. It's a period piece and quite beautiful. I'm going to watch them with Lissa. I swear, there ARE shows not starring Hannah Montanna.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Emily Of New Moon
Did anyone else ever watch Emily Of New Moon? Orphaned Emily goes to live with her mother's odd family in a big house called New Moon. She has "second site" and communicates with ghosts. It was a really good PBS series in the 90's and now there are 13 episodes on Hulu. HERE. If you liked Little House or Anne Of Green Gables, you'll love this one. It's a period piece and quite beautiful. I'm going to watch them with Lissa. I swear, there ARE shows not starring Hannah Montanna.
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Got to check it out. Love Ann and Road to Avonlea. My dream is to go to Prince edward island. I will have to check this out to. Thanks DD..
I apologize in advance for taking over the thread with this huge comment but I'm kinda passionate about Prince Edward Island.
I lived from the age of 12 to 24 on PEI. It is as beautiful as any picture you've seen. I earned spending money every fall working on a potato harvester in the middle of the most beautiful scenery. The farmer I worked for had fields all around Bedeque and many of them were on the water. Even now when PEI potatoes are in the produce department I stick my face in them and breathe in because the dirt is fragrant and the aroma warps me back 'home' and wraps me in a kind of happy longing.
The soil is very red. The ocean and sky are mostly always blue and the fields are yellow and green. The air is clear. It's all quite breath taking.
Tiny harbours with lobster boats dot the island and are the very definition of picturesque.
Did you know that according to the Canadian Shark Research Centre, the largest accurately measured great white shark was a female caught in August 1983 at Prince Edward Island off the Canadian (North Atlantic) coast and measured 6.1 metres (20.3 ft) I remember when it was caught. My in-laws were from that area and had the local news letter.
Unfortunately this beauty is only for two months of the year. The winters are moderate by Canadian standards but still tough. Many people visit in the summer, fall in love, move there and are driven away by the winter.
If you have read any Anne of Green Gables books or books by Lucy Maud Montgomery based on PEI it is still exactly as she describes in the countryside. They have even adopted her names for the places around Green Gables - which is now a golf course.
My SIL and her family had the cleaning contract for the building that housed the set of Emily of New Moon (a remodeled hangar on the property of a decomissioned Canadian military base - CFB Summerside, also on the water). We were visiting one year and they took us to see the set. It was so interesting. I even peeked at the measurements of the actors in the costume department. Sheila McCarthy is TINY!
Awesome! Never apologise for a long comment.
I'm going to check this out! I always loved Anne of Greene Gables. When Caryn was a little girl she would watch LHOTP and wouldn't ride her bike without her bonnet on! The best part is that my aunt had an actual old bonnet that she let Caryn wear...come to think of it, for a while she slept in a stocking cap for her "sleeping hat" like the girls wore.
Dang...CFB Summerside link is forbidden...I wonder why? I checked the link and worked...I guess the military still wants to keep its secrets!
Thank you Fimmy. I loved it. I cant wait to the day I can take the girls to the coves and all around. They will probably think it is corny and boring. My mother has golfed on that course and enjoyed her trip to the island. Her one friend lives up in Maine they went all together for a big trip. I wanted to go so badly. Some day. Hopefully during the spring time.
Bed & Breakfasts are everywhere. My other SIL runs one and they treat their guests like royalty. Let me know if you want their website.
YAY!! I'm so happy to see this!! I'm actually from Prince Edward Island though I don't live there anymore. And I miss home so much! I worked at Green Gables House for 3 years during my undergrad degree so you could say I'm a bit of an L.M. Montgomery buff. I can assure you all that the house does exist (although the property surrounding it is indeed a golf course as Frimmy describes). The house itself belonged to the Montgomery's maternal grandfather's cousins. She never lived there herself but did live on the other side of the woods (the Haunted Wood) next to it and visited often. This house served as the inspiration for the house described in the Anne of Green Gables novel (just the house mind you, not the people in it).
PEI is just as beautiful as Frimmy describes. The first time I came home after moving away I nearly cried as we drove over the bridge and the Island was spread out before me. There's an intense feeling that arises when you see the brilliant red, blue and green colors of the coastline, land, sky and water in front of you.
Interesting PEI tidbits: It is Canada's smallest province in both size (2185 sq. miles) and population (140,000 people). We are home to potatoes, Anne of Green Gables and fabulous seafood (mussels, lobster and Malpeque oysters). The Confederation Bridge was built in 1997 to provide a fixed link to the mainland and is 13km (8 miles) long. The Emily of New Moon series was filmed in PEI (unlike Anne of Green Gables) and Martha MacIsaac, the actress who played Emily, if from Charlottetown, PEI. She was more recently in the movie Superbad.
But I digress. I apologize for the long post but it's so rare that I see anyone mention my teeny tiny home!
Living there is a dream of mine. Or a place like it. In the show it's just too gorgeous and mysterious.
We'll all have to plan a visit there. That would be a blast.
As Patricia said, the seafood is world class...I really miss it.
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