Star Island is one of the rocky, wind-swept Isles of Shoals, located off the coast of Rye, New Hampshire. For over 100 years, summers here have provided individuals and families with a welcome respite from their busy mainland lives. Star Island Corporation is a nonprofit organization which maintains the island and its facilities and provides hospitality services for visitors.

Star Island's 2008 Conferences:
On Solid Ground

As we prepare for next summer, we are more excited than ever at the anticipation of our time on Star Island, a place for renewal, personal growth, connection and the sheer joy of our Island home.

The conference calendar is now available online. If you aren't a "regular" at your special conference, there are so many choices to pick from, you're sure to find a conference that interests you. Come alone, with a loved one or the entire family and connect (or reconnect) with the magic of Star.

We have taken stock and Star Island is stronger than ever. We have invested more than $270,000 in electrical and other improvements in addition to the more than $1 million invested solely in fire and other safety upgrades over the last six years. All of last year's electrical problems are fixed and we are working with fire officials and other regulators on developing approved plans to meet all existing codes. We are already ahead on $200,000 of scheduled 2008 safety work.

Excellent, skilled staff are being recruited and the best qualities of our beloved buildings, we are happy to say, have been retained while making them much safer and more secure. If you want to know more about the other steps we've taken to sustain Star and to give you a great summer, contact us at office@starisland.org any time.

"...The spirit of the Shoals absorbs what we consider highest, noblest, and even most heroic in the human spirit. We have become a community of the spirit reaching together toward our ideas and encouraging one another in the process. Star Island, simply, asks of us a certain height. Our island has been asking this of us ever since we first came here. We have all responded by stretching a bit and feeling a bit taller. We expect it of other Star Islanders. They expect it of us. We feel we must not let one another down."—Fred McGill