Courtesy photo Rehearsing for the Hollidaysburg Area Repertory Players’ production of “Anne of Green Gables” are (from left): Baret Monahan (Matthew Cuthbert), Nina Meadows (Anne Shirley) and Brenna ...
Young Anne Shirley, a spunky, sharp-witted, melodramatic orphan with fiery red hair has arrived to Prince Edward Island and been adopted by siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert of Green Gables farm.
When young Anne Shirley – that’s Anne with an e – gets off the train at Avonlea, a very bewildered Matthew Cuthbert picks her up. He and his sister Marilla were expecting a boy to help on the farm.