Anne's School in Avonlea

Submitted by Living Archives on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 17:39.

Image depicts an exterior view of school with children playing in the school yard. The schoolmaster is standing in the center of the group and is identified as Fred Bell. Photograph taken in Tryon, Prince Edward Island.

The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building low in the eaves and wide in the windows, furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut, and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children. The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour.

 

"Marilla had seen Anne start off to school on the first day of September....

"Anne came home that evening in high spirits.

“'I think I’m going to like school here,' she announced. 'I don’t think much of the master, though....'” (149-50)

Photo of Tryon Consolidated School, 1912.
Public Archives Record Office Acc2667/135


from L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Boston: L. C. Page, 1908.

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