There’s nothing like a real redhead to cause a stir at Green Gables House in Cavendish. Impromptu paparazzi click crazily on the heels of a bemused and amused 13-year-old Ashley Stark of Tulsa, Okla., who would make Anne Shirley herself do a double take.

“This child has the personality of Anne and the hair of Anne,” says her mother, Felicia Stark, laughing.

They and Ashley’s sister, Lindsey, 11, her father, Alan, and grandparents, Bob and Linda Nichols, were in the throes recently of a fly-and-drive vacation to P. E. I. after falling under the spell of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s magical Anne of Green Gables novel, which was published a century ago this year.

Ashley was the first in her family to crack the spine of this literary classic and the rest of her family quickly fell in line.

“She has a similar personality (to me) and she likes to use big words. And it just sounded all fun and exciting. I ended up reading the rest of the series and then I wanted to come,” says Ashley.

Read More?