Check out a copy of the Thursday, May 17 edition of Foster’s Daily Democrat to see the Gosport Regatta Media Guide!

It tells you all about this years Gosport Regatta happening on Star Island Corporation in partnership with Piscataqua Sailing Association.

Star Island Newsletter

Spring 2012

Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1

Inside this Issue:

• Meet Joe Watts, the next CEO of Star Island
• Letter from Vicky Hardy
• Saying Thank You: List of donors
• Passages
• Gosport Regatta
• Top-selling books
• Literary Festival
• Shining the Star
• Your survey results
• Star Island online
• 40 under 40
• Star Bridge conference

With our new online application, it’s easier than ever to seek financial aid for your visit to Star this season.

The confidential program is available to individuals and families that are registered for a conference and have not received a conference scholarship. Please note awards are always partial, and depend on the number of applications received.

Learn more and apply today!

Star Island has an opening for a seasonal boat captain. For details, including required qualifications and application information, visit our seasonal work page.

We here at Star Island love a good prank as much as the next person, but we don’t joke around when it comes to celebrating our spirit’s home. That’s why we’re declaring April 1 as an annual Lime Rickey Day.

Learn more!

Investigate mystery and mayhem on the Isles of Shoals this summer and attend the Historic Star Conference on Star Island from Saturday, August 25 to Saturday, September 1.

The Historic Star Conference will help you determine the truth behind stories of pirates, treasure, ghosts and murder just 10 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire. Surround yourself with the cottages and structures used by fishing families in the 17th and 18th centuries while learning about the isolated village of Gosport. Uncover the seemingly peculiar behavior of Gosport’s residents while residing in what remains of this community.

Join author and NHPTV host Rebecca Rule for strange tales of New England, learn of the 18th century hanging of Portsmouth resident Ruth Blay from Carolyn Marvin of the Portsmouth Athenaeum and attend atmospheric digital photographs and art workshops.

Play the role of a famous Shoals character or a detective at an evening “Star Island Mystery Soiree.” With scandals as big as murder and stories as intriguing as pirates, witches and ghosts, the Historic Star Conference allows you to learn about our region’s history and separate from the mainland for a week.

Conference Organizer Ann Beattie said, “The Isles of Shoals have been the home to so much history. From explorer John Smith to oil tycoon Aristotle Onassis, Star Island has stories to tell and the Historic Star Conference is the perfect way to learn about the mystery and mayhem.”

Star Island CEO Vicky Hardy said, “We hear ghost stories all the time out on Star Island, and now there is an opportunity to experience more than ghosts. The Historic Star Conference provides a relaxing way to learn about New England’s isolated gem of history.”

For more information about the conference and to register, please visit StarIsland.org/HistoricStar.

The Star Island Corporation was established as a nonprofit corporation in 1916 to hold and administer Star Island and its historic properties for religious, educational, and kindred purposes. The Laighton family owned and operated hotels on the Isles of Shoals that attracted some of the most prominent artists and writers of their day. Some of the cottages on Star Island date back to the 1700s.

A Star Island Art Exhibition is opening at the Eventide Art Gallery in Essex, MA on Saturday, April 14. The hours of the opening will be from 3pm to 9pm, with the exhibition continuing for the next two weeks, until April 28th.

This special event is both a fund-raiser to benefit Star and a promotional to introduce Star’s many exciting conference and retreat offerings to both Shoalers and non-Shoalers.
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