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Boston Globe visits Star Island

July 23rd, 2007

Reporter Sarah Schweitzer and photographer Jason Johns visited Star Island last week and the result is a front page article in today’s Boston Globe!

Island back in business: Repairs finished, N.H. retreat reopens to relief of regulars

“This placid island 7 miles off the coast is a place of deep attachments for visitors. Hundreds return each summer, like their parents and grandparents before them, to attend religious retreats and educational seminars on the island, with its candlelit stone chapel, rows of line-drying laundry, arranged according to the colors of the rainbow, and preferred pastimes of reflection and meditation.”


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.

Contact Star Island

Phone: (603) 430-6272
Fax: (603) 430-6270
Island Phone: (603) 601-0832
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Star Island Corporation
Morton-Benedict House
30 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801

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