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John W.

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Jun 17, 2003, 5:45:26 PM6/17/03
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From the NY Times:

http://tinyurl.com/ek8v

"It's a long way from home, but this bucolic island of gingerbread
cottages and rolling green hills is where generations of Japanese
girls have dreamed of getting married, or of simply visiting before
they die.

"As adults, they come by the thousands every year, a few with their
hair dyed red and tied in pigtails just like Anne Shirley, the heroine
of "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel about the
irrepressible orphan from the fictional town of Avonlea."

Uh... what?

John W.

Jason Cormier

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Jun 17, 2003, 8:16:34 PM6/17/03
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On 6/17/03 17:45, in article
73fde4f0.03061...@posting.google.com, "John W."
<worth...@yahoo.com> wrote:

A devious plot by the people of PEI to lift as much money as possible out of
the wallets of the Japanese. Lucy Maud Montgomery is actually the fictional
creation of a Cavendish conglomerate, Red Potato International.

Travers Naran

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Jun 17, 2003, 9:06:31 PM6/17/03
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John W. wrote:

I heard there was an Anne of Green Gables theme park in Japan. Anyone
know if it's still there? I've always wanted to make a reverse
pilgrimage there since I first heard about it.

P.S. For the record, as a Canadian, みどりガブルのアンネが　だいきらい　
です。
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Heywood Mogroot

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Jun 18, 2003, 8:21:35 AM6/18/03
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worth...@yahoo.com (John W.) wrote in message news:<73fde4f0.03061...@posting.google.com>...
> From the NY Times:

>
> "As adults, they come by the thousands every year, a few with their
> hair dyed red and tied in pigtails just like Anne Shirley, the heroine
> of "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel about the
> irrepressible orphan from the fictional town of Avonlea."

Except for the pigtails part, I'm in touch with that.

My seriously lame Japanese reader in college had a story on Tokei-ji in Kamakura.

So of course on the way to Enoshima I just /had/ to see that stupid temple.

Not exactly a waste of time, but still...

=Heywood=

biku

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Jun 19, 2003, 2:58:30 PM6/19/03
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I don't think it is actually a theme park
per say but I head there is a reconstruction
of the house in Hokkaido I believe.
This was actually quite fortunate as there
was a fire a couple of years back in the original.
In order to fix it up they had to send for a copy
of the blueprints from Japan.
Biku

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