Jane of Lantern Hill and the Montgomery Sugar Maple: An Allegory for Regeneration

Sugar maple and Lucy Maud Montgomery, linked together through space and time via the Humber River Valley. Tree and author both searching for ways forward through precarious times in their lives. Finding vital links to sources of regeneration through written words and in black forest loam, enabling them to continue into the present and on, into the future. Apparently simple seeds and words, doing their things, wreathed in science and mystery. Leaving signs and certainties by which we may decipher some complexities of the lives of maple and Montgomery.