Star Island is one of the Isles of Shoals that straddle the border between New Hampshire and Maine, seven miles from the mainland in the Atlantic Ocean. Star Island is the largest of the four islands in the group that are located in New Hampshire. In 1876, the island was annexed to the town of Rye from the former town of Gosport.
Star Island is owned and operated by The Star Island Corporation, as a religious and educational conference center with close ties to the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ. The conferences include week-long conferences with yearly-changing themes, family conferences, and youth conferences. In 2008, "personal retreats" were created, thus allowing members of the public to stay on the island for up to one week. Sarah Orne Jewett wrote an occasional poem, published in Harper's Magazine (63:550–551), September 1881, about her visit to Star Island and the Gosport church.
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Famous quotes containing the words star and/or island:
“To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)