‘I knew that we would be able to really bring it back to life,’ says restoration expert The Canadian Conservation Institute is restoring a P.E.I. painting from the 1890s, by a “bosom friend” of Lucy Maud Montgomery, that was donated to the Bideford Parsonage Museum. The artist, Edith England, met the Anne of Green Gables author in the late 1800s when Montgomery began teaching at the Bideford school in western Prince Edward Island. The two remained close friends for many years, as documented in Montgomery’s journals. A few years ago, England’s family offered herRead more