As the days grow shorter and the air cools, we can look forward to the coming holiday season. The people of Avonlea and New Bedford celebrate autumn with fall fairs, festivals, and parties, and Thanksgiving celebrations are part of autumn’s holiday fun. Thanksgiving is held in early October in Canada, but in the USA Thanksgiving falls every year on the fourth Thursday of the month of November.

The stories from Avonlea are smart, funny, and heartwarming. But sometimes, the townspeople’s conversations are peppered with terms that seem foreign and strange to the 21st century audience.

Wind at My Back gives us a taste of some of the great turns of phrase that were popular in the 1930s, particularly from the lips of Grace Bailey. Here are a few more examples of 30s slang!

Reading up on 1930s style, we found this feature on the popularity of pajamas in the early 1930s. Pajamas for everyday wear? This is a style we could get behind!

Today we return to our "exploring an era" section with a few more tidbits from today's date in 1931.

We're looking back to Victorian times today, and the skills that farm children were required to know in the latter half of the 19th century.

Not too long ago, we revealed the sources of inspiration that led to the production of the award-winning series, Wind at My Back.  One of these sources was the memoirs of Canadian writer Max Braithwaite, who wrote about his time growing up in a Canadian family during the first quarter of the 20th century.

Craig Kielburger, founder of Free The Children, sat down with Kevin Sullivan and explained how he felt Anne of Green Gables embodied many of the themes his organization represented. Specifically, he talked about empowering women.

Wind at My Back fans have often wondered what first inspired Kevin Sullivan to dream up the award-winning series.  The answer is a combination of inspirational and historic resources – namely, the history of his own relatives that lived during the Great Depression, in addition to literature that reflected this time period.  One primary example is author Max Braithwaite’s first of three autobiographical novels, Never Sleep Three in a Bed.

We recently talked about the worthwhile habit of keeping a diary and how instrumental it can be in keeping track of the little instances in life that are easily forgotten.  But apparently, writing in a diary has a more scientific effect on our emotions than we might have thought.