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Celia Thaxter Plaque

Purpose:

Historic, art, literary

 

Location: (Street, Park, GPS)

Daniel Street

N43°04.643 W070°45.398'

 

Date Installed:

June 29, 1999

 

Date or Era Referenced:

June 29, 1835 – August 26, 1894

 

Description:

Small metal plaque affixed to the front of a brick building (now store front w/apts above)

 

Wording:

Celia Laighton Thaxter Poet, Writer, Artist, was born here June 29, 1835. Author of Among the Isles of Shoals and An Island Garden She died on Appledore, August 26, 1894. Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association June 29, 1999

 

Affiliations:

Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association, June 1999

 

Summary:

  • Celia Thaxter is very well known in the community. She is primarily associated with Appledore Island, one of the Isles of Shoals, where she ran a hotel that for a time functioned as an artists’ retreat.
  • Her garden on Appledore has been immortalized through her publication of An Island Garden, a Childe Hassam painting of her in the garden (hangs in the MFA), and the reconstruction of her garden in 1977 by the founding direction of the Shoals Marine Lab. http://www.sml.cornell.edu/sml_publiced_aboutthegarden.html
  • The Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association http://www.ishra.org/
  • An article on Celia Thaxter http://seacoastnh.com/women/thaxter.html

 

 

 

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