In a letter to her Scottish pen pal, G.B. MacMillan, she writes:

“One evening I spent wandering about the graveyard where so many of our dead people lie.  It was not a sorrowful tryst.  I felt very happy and among friendly presences.  I felt again acutely the peculiar, indefinable charm of P.E. Island.  A certain wellspring of fancy which I thought had gone dry in me bubbled up as freshly as of old.”

This photo was taken of the Cavendish Cemetery – the graveyard that L.M. Montgomery was most likely writing about.

Photo (top of page): In Road to Avonlea’s Season One episode, "The Journey Begins", Sara goes to visit the grave of her mother, Ruth Stanley, on the grounds of the King Farm.

Source: Spirit of Place: Lucy Maud Montgomery and Prince Edward Island