In these pivotal chapters of Anne of the Island, the Senior Year energy hits Redmond College. Anne Shirley and her friends return for their final year, but the atmosphere has shifted from the carefree days of freshmen to the bittersweet reality of impending departures.

Chapter 35: The Last Redmond Year Opens

The bloom is off the rye as Anne returns to Kingsport. The chapter captures the melancholy of the last time for everything. While her academic career is reaching its zenith, her social life feels strained. The once-easy friendship with Gilbert Blythe has cooled into a polite, distant formality that haunts the periphery of her busy schedule.

Chapter 36: The Gardners' Call

The stakes of Anne's relationship with Roy Gardner reach a fever pitch when his mother and sister, Dorothy, come to call. Anne finds herself navigating the rigid social expectations of the wealthy Gardner family. While she passes the test and finds a surprisingly kindred spirit in Dorothy, the encounter leaves Anne wondering if a life of perfect propriety is truly what she desires.

Credits

• Narration and Production by Gizelle Erickson
• Executive Producer Jon Hagadorn
• Music:
  • Music by Luis Humanoide from Pixabay (Gilded Theme)
• LibriVox recording:
  • Chapter 35 read by rachelellen
  • Chapter 36 read by Christiane Levesque

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In today's episode of Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery, we follow Anne Shirley as her journey is marked by change and growth during her transition toward adulthood. While substitute teaching at Valley Road, Anne has been a silent observer of a placid courtship that seemed to have no end. In "He Just Kept Coming and Coming," the mystery of John Douglas's two-decade-long silence is explored, illustrating the complexities of evolving friendship and the poignant nostalgia of a life spent in waiting. Finally, as we reach "John Douglas Speaks at Last," the narrative beautifully captures the intertwining of love, friendship, and the challenges of newfound independence that define Anne's continuing journey.

• Host and Producer by Gizelle Erickson
• Executive Producer Jon Hagadorn
• Music: Thanks to Luis_Humanoide "Victorian Violin Waltz" Music by Luis Humanoide from Pixabay
• LibriVox Recording by Rachel Ellen

In today's episode of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of the Island, we rejoin Anne Shirley as she returns to the life of a country 'schoolma'am' at Valley Road. Boarding at Wayside with the thrifty soul Janet Sweet, Anne enjoys a world of feather-beds and lavish feasts, though she is slightly haunted by a parlor decorated with five preserved coffin plates.

While the local social scene is quiet, save for a youth offering peppermints, Anne becomes a passive spectator to the courtship of Janet and John Douglas, a man whose face reveals a patient, humorous endurance. However, during a tea with John's mother, an angelic woman who claims to have been dying by inches for twenty years, Anne catches a glimpse of John looking like a tortured man, hinting at a hidden weight behind their long-standing placid courtship.

Credits

• Host and Producer Gizelle Erickson
• Executive Producer Jon Hagadorn
• Music Thanks to Luis_Humanoide "Victorian Violin Waltz" Music by Luis Humanoide from Pixabay
• LibriVox Recording by Rachel Ellen