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>> NARRATOR: A remarkable
Victorian garden blooms

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on the rugged Isles of Shoals.

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On Appledore Island,
in sharp contrast

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to the rocky shore
and shrubby vegetation,

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delicate poppies gracefully
twist in the ocean breezes.

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>> "It seems strange

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"to write a book about a little
garden only 50 feet long

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"by 15 wide.

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"But then, as a friend
pleasantly remarked to me,

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"it extends upward, and what it
lacks in area

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"is more than compensated by the
large joy that grows out of it,

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"and its uplifting
and refreshment

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of the spirit of man."

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Celia Thaxter.

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>> NARRATOR: The little garden
has more than 1,600 plants,

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each flowering variety
placed in the same spot

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year after year, according
to a plan published in 1894

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by the famous poet and author
Celia Laighton Thaxter,

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who grew up on tiny
White Island, where her father,

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Thomas Laighton, became
lighthouse keeper in 1839.

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>> "Ever since I could remember
anything, flowers have been

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"like dear friends to me--
comforters, inspirers,

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"powers to uplift and to cheer.

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"A lonely child

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"living on the lighthouse island
ten miles away

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"from the mainland, every blade
of grass that sprang

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"out of the ground,
every humblest weed,

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was precious in my sight."

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>> She grew up
in the Isles of Shoals

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in a little lighthouse.

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She married when she was young.

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Her parents built this hotel,

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which became very popular.

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It was just one of the earliest
resort hotels in America.

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And Celia spent
a lot of time there.

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She had an unhappy marriage

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and finally left her husband
to pursue her own life,

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and she had a disabled son
who she had to devote

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a lot of time to.

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>> NARRATOR: With three children
and a large house to care for,

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and far from
her beloved islands,

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Celia began to express
her feelings through poetry.

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"Landlocked," a poem
that described her longing

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for the Isles of Shoals,
was published to great acclaim

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in the<i>Atlantic Monthly.</i>

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>> "Black lie the hills

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"swiftly doth daylight flee

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"And catching gleams
of sunset's dying smile

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"Through the dusk land
for many a changing mile

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"The river runneth
softly to the sea.

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"O happy river,
could I follow thee!

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"O yearning heart,
that never can be still!

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"O wistful eyes that watch
the steadfast hill,

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"Longing for level line
of solemn sea!

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"Have patience; here are
flowers and songs of birds,

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"Beauty and fragrance,
wealth of sound and sight,

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"All summer's glory thine
from morn till night,

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"And life too full of joy
for uttered words.

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"Neither am I ungrateful;
but I dream deliciously

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"how twilight falls to-night
over the glimmering water,

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"how the light
dies blissfully away,

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"until I seem

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"to feel the wind,
sea-scented, on my cheek,

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"To catch the sound
of dusky flapping sail

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"And dip of oars, and voices
on the gale afar off,

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"calling low--
my name they speak!

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"O Earth!

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"Thy summer song of joy may soar
ringing to heaven in triumph.

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"I but crave the sad,
caressing murmur of the wave

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That breaks in tender music
on the shore."

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>> By then she had become
well known

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because of James
and Annie Fields.

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She had been part of their lives
for many years

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and knew a lot of their friends.

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>> NARRATOR: Celia was growing
a cutting garden,

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using the flowers
to color her parlor.

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Beginning at 5:00 in the
morning, she picked her flowers,

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and then she arranged and
rearranged them in vases,

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until she got
just the right effect.

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>> Celia's garden was

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her anchor, and it held her
to the island, but it was also

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her tie to the shore,

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in that it attracted other
artists to the island.

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>> When Colonial Revival

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was seeing the old styles
of garden go away,

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industrialization had
come along,

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big agriculture had come along,

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and within a couple of decades
of their lives,

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they saw agriculture move out
to the Midwest,

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farm abandonment, railroads,

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so they were looking
for this nostalgic view

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of gardens from the past.

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>> "As I work among my flowers,
I find myself talking to them,

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"reasoning and remonstrating
with them, and adoring them

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"as if they were human beings.

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"Much laughter I provoke
among my friends by so doing,

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"but that is of no consequence.

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We are on such good terms,
my flowers and I."

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Celia Thaxter.

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>> She was inspired
by the flowers in her garden

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for her poetry.

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But she took it beyond writing
and began to paint

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and found that she could
truly relax,

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be comfortable, and express
herself through her painting.

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>> As in all of our lives,
I think gardens enrich

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our lives, they create a sense
of poetry in the landscape,

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and she understood that
as a poet and as an artist.

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It also came through
in her artwork.

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We see in the collections
of Celia Thaxter pottery

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that we have here,
and artwork that we have here,

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that she was painting from some
of those simple heirloom flowers

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that she had in her gardens.

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>> She would paint flowers
from her garden

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with botanical accuracy,
and she did this year round.

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In the stormy cold winter,
she had visual images

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of her beautiful garden,
and then would paint.

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>> "While the music went on,
while the people went in and out

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and talked and talked, I painted
on steadily, every minute."

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>> Through her painting,
she knew Childe Hassam

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and many other painters.

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>> They made their gardens

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a gathering place.

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For Celia Thaxter,

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the garden was one part

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of salon life.

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It's a way that she heightened
the pleasurable experience

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of attending her salon.

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>> "Opening out
on the long piazza,

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"over the flower beds

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"and extending almost
its whole length,

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"runs the large, light,
airy room where a group

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"of happy people gather to pass

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"the swiftly flying summers
here at the Isles of Shoals.

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"Year after year,

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"a long procession
of charming people come and go

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"within its doors,

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"and the flowers that glow
for their delight

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"seem to listen with them

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"to the music that stirs
each blossom upon its stem.

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"Often have I watched
the great red poppies

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"drop their fiery petals
wavering solemnly

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"to the floor, stricken
with the arrows

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"of melodious sound

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"from the matchless violin
answering to the touch

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"of a master,

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"or to the storm of rich
vibrations from the piano.

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"What heavenly music has
resounded from those walls?

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"What mornings and evenings
of pleasantness have flown by

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in that room?"

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>> It was just wonderful
being in her salon,

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because a famous pianist
would be playing,

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a violinist would be playing,

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she would be painting,

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there were these beautiful
flower arrangements all around.

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>> "Near my own seat
in a sofa corner

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"at one of the south windows
stands yet another small table,

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"covered with a snow-white
linen cloth embroidered in silk

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"as white and lustrous
as silver.

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"On this are gathered
every day all the rarest

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"and loveliest flowers
as they blossom,

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"that I may touch them,
dwell on them,

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"breathe their delightful
fragrance and adore them.

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"Here are kept the daintiest
and most delicate of the vases,

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"which may best set off
the flowers' loveliness,

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"the smallest of the collection,

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"for the table is only large
enough to hold a few.

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"Mr. Paine has been playing
sonatas for me this morning,

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"ending with the great
'Appassionata.'

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"I say 'me,' for there's
no one else to listen.

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"Sat on the yellow sofa,
I in my corner here,

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"whence I can look out
to the sunlit, glowing garden

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"through the openings
in the vines,

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"on the breezy sparkling sea,
whereon the haze lies

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"like the soft bloom on grapes.

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And it makes everything
dreamy and beautiful."

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>> Celia was motivated in part
by her financial situation,

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and Celia found that she could
take a volume of her poetry,

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which would sell for $1.25,
and add paintings,

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and for each image
that she created on a page

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of her own poetry book,

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she could charge
an additional dollar.

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>> She'd had quite an industry
going on the island.

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She painted china, which was
a very genteel thing

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for a lady to do, and she also

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illustrated published books
of her poems

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with little watercolors,

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and some of those beautiful
books survive,

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and she would sell those
to the guests in her parlor,

10:44.300 --> 10:45.633 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
along with the paintings

10:45.666 --> 10:47.133 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
by people like Childe Hassam
and others.

10:47.166 --> 10:49.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
If you were lucky enough
to be invited into the parlor

10:49.700 --> 10:53.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
to listen to the musicians and
to have the stimulating chat,

10:53.066 --> 10:55.266 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
you also probably
had an opportunity

10:55.300 --> 10:58.333 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
to buy a painting
and take it home with you.

10:59.900 --> 11:05.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
He was an illustrator, which is
a frequent beginning point

11:05.200 --> 11:07.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
for American artists
in the 19th century.

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So as an illustrator,
and eventually

11:10.233 --> 11:13.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
a very talented watercolorist,
he started to meet people

11:13.400 --> 11:17.700 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
in the artistic community in
Boston, which was quite small.

11:17.733 --> 11:20.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
And among the people he met
was Celia Thaxter,

11:20.933 --> 11:23.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
sometime in the early '80s,
so he was only

11:23.433 --> 11:26.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
about 20, 21 years old
when he met her.

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>> The story is

11:28.166 --> 11:33.200 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
that his name was
Frederick C. Hassam,

11:33.233 --> 11:36.133 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
and then she convinced him
to change it

11:36.166 --> 11:39.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to Childe Hassam, that it would
be more dramatic

11:39.300 --> 11:41.000 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
and more artistic.

11:41.033 --> 11:44.466 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
>> As she did with many artists,

11:44.500 --> 11:46.133 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
Celia inspired
the young Childe Hassam

11:46.166 --> 11:49.066 align:left position:37.5% line:83% size:52.5%
to kind of
be absorbed in her garden

11:49.100 --> 11:52.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
and in the beauties of nature
that she was

11:52.733 --> 11:56.100 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
sort of experimenting with
on the grounds.

11:56.133 --> 11:58.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
He was very interested
in the rocks of Appledore,

11:58.900 --> 12:02.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
which had all kinds of
associations and meanings.

12:02.500 --> 12:06.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
>> From the late 1800s
until World War II, there was

12:06.666 --> 12:08.700 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
a proliferation
of garden writing.

12:08.733 --> 12:12.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
And women were entering
the field and writing books,

12:12.900 --> 12:16.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
autobiographical books,
about their own gardens.

12:16.900 --> 12:20.166 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
>> "Year after year,
the island garden has grown

12:20.200 --> 12:23.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"in beauty and charm,
so that in response

12:23.200 --> 12:26.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"to the many entreaties
of strangers as well as friends

12:26.900 --> 12:30.266 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"who have said to me,
summer after summer,

12:30.300 --> 12:33.133 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"'Tell us how you do it--
write a book about it

12:33.166 --> 12:36.200 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
"'and tell us how it is done,
that we may go also

12:36.233 --> 12:37.466 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65%
"and do likewise'...

12:39.933 --> 12:42.800 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"I have written
this book at last.

12:42.833 --> 12:45.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
"Truly, it contains the fruit

12:45.733 --> 12:49.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
of much sweet and bitter
experience."

12:49.700 --> 12:53.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
>><i>An Island Garden</i>is just
a beautiful, beautiful book.

12:53.200 --> 12:58.233 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
The illustrations are by
Childe Hassam, and her writing,

12:58.266 --> 13:01.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
I think it's the best writing
that she did.

13:01.866 --> 13:03.266 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
She didn't... it was
her last book,

13:03.300 --> 13:06.733 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
and I think that she did not
quite finish it.

13:06.766 --> 13:11.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
But she had become very friendly
with Sarah Orne Jewett,

13:11.700 --> 13:16.400 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
who was Annie Fields' partner,
and Sarah Orne Jewett,

13:16.433 --> 13:19.666 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
I think, finished the book
in the end for her.

13:19.700 --> 13:20.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
>> Celia was completely
comfortable

13:20.800 --> 13:27.633 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
in inviting Sarah's advice
on her book,

13:27.666 --> 13:32.300 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
and there are at least four
letters that were written

13:32.333 --> 13:35.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
through the time that Celia was
writing the book--

13:36.000 --> 13:41.900 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
letters written to Sarah,
talking about Sarah's advice

13:41.933 --> 13:44.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
and what Celia had been able
to do with it,

13:44.933 --> 13:47.133 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
asking questions and guidance.

13:47.166 --> 13:51.000 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
>> "To Sarah Orne Jewett,
Portsmouth.

13:51.033 --> 13:55.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"Thank you for your sweet letter
and all your kind suggestions.

13:55.133 --> 13:58.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"Dear, you have given me
a real helpful lift,

13:58.666 --> 14:00.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"because I've been doing
this work

14:00.300 --> 14:02.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
"without a particle
of enthusiasm,

14:02.866 --> 14:04.566 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
"in a most perfunctory manner

14:04.600 --> 14:06.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"from the bits of notes
I had made,

14:06.633 --> 14:09.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"and my mind has been
so saddened by deep shadows

14:09.866 --> 14:12.200 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
"for many months.

14:12.233 --> 14:14.400 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
"Somehow I had
no heart in it at all.

14:14.433 --> 14:16.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"I'm hoping when I go
to the Shoals presently

14:17.000 --> 14:19.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"to get some of the real flavor
of the place

14:19.800 --> 14:21.600 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
"and the work into it.

14:21.633 --> 14:23.800 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
"I was so happy when I wrote
the Shoals book.

14:23.833 --> 14:25.600 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
"It wrote itself.

14:25.633 --> 14:30.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
"But now the shadows are so
long, and it grows so lonesome

14:30.200 --> 14:32.900 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
"on this earth, and there is
such a chill

14:32.933 --> 14:36.966 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
where there used to be
such warmth and bliss."

14:37.000 --> 14:39.766 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
Celia Thaxter.

14:39.800 --> 14:45.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
>> Towards the end of Celia's
life, she was suffering, I know,

14:45.166 --> 14:48.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
from what they called
a nervous disorder,

14:48.233 --> 14:50.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
which I think was a common name

14:50.666 --> 14:53.100 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
for women's diseases
in that time.

14:53.133 --> 14:56.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
She was sometimes depressed,
she was very overweight,

14:56.200 --> 15:01.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
so I think that she was
just ill, and nobody knew

15:01.633 --> 15:03.600 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65%
exactly what it was.

15:10.700 --> 15:13.633 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
>> NARRATOR: Ultimately,
the work was finished,

15:13.666 --> 15:16.066 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
and the author and artist
produced a book

15:16.100 --> 15:17.766 align:left position:27.5% line:89% size:62.5%
of lasting beauty.

15:17.800 --> 15:21.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
It was to be Celia's last work.

15:21.666 --> 15:23.933 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
Just three months
after the book's publication

15:23.966 --> 15:30.766 align:left position:32.5% line:83% size:57.5%
in June 1894,
Celia Thaxter died at age 59.

15:30.800 --> 15:35.633 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
She's buried on Appledore,
near her beloved garden.

15:35.666 --> 15:39.500 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
>> She just died in her sleep,
and luckily,

15:39.533 --> 15:41.000 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75%
Sarah Orne Jewett was there,

15:41.033 --> 15:45.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
Childe Hassam, and several other
of her closest friends.

15:45.466 --> 15:50.200 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
And the next morning they
covered her coffin with flowers,

15:50.233 --> 15:54.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and they carried her to
this very peaceful resting place

15:54.366 --> 15:57.266 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60%
near her garden.

15:57.300 --> 16:01.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
>> "The day was still and soft,
and the veiled sun was declining

16:01.966 --> 16:04.600 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"as the solemn procession,
bearing flowers,

16:04.633 --> 16:07.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
"followed to the sacred place.

16:07.533 --> 16:09.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"At a respectful distance above

16:09.333 --> 16:13.100 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
"stood a wide ring
of interested observers,

16:13.133 --> 16:18.566 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
"but only those who knew her
and loved her best drew near.

16:21.500 --> 16:24.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
"After all was done,
and the body was at rest

16:24.033 --> 16:26.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
"upon the fragrant bed
prepared for it,

16:26.500 --> 16:29.400 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
"the young flower bearers
brought their burdens

16:29.433 --> 16:31.400 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
"to cover her.

16:31.433 --> 16:32.766 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
"The bright, tear-stained faces

16:32.800 --> 16:35.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"of those who held up their arms
full of flowers

16:35.833 --> 16:38.433 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75%
"to be heaped upon the spot

16:38.466 --> 16:40.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
"until it became
a mound of blossoms,

16:40.766 --> 16:45.666 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
"allied the scene in beauty
and simplicity

16:45.700 --> 16:49.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
"to the solemn rites
of antiquity.

16:49.866 --> 16:54.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
"It was indeed a poet's burial,
but it was far more than that.

16:54.200 --> 16:57.666 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
"It was the celebration
of the passing

16:57.700 --> 17:00.633 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80%
of a large and beneficent soul."

17:00.666 --> 17:03.166 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5%
Annie Fields.

17:21.900 --> 17:23.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
>> NARRATOR: With no one
to devote the hours needed

17:24.000 --> 17:28.633 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
to maintain the garden as Celia
had, the garden declined,

17:28.666 --> 17:31.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
much as did the business
of the Appledore House.

17:35.400 --> 17:40.133 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
The end came in 1914
when fire destroyed the hotel,

17:40.166 --> 17:44.733 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
Celia's cottage,
and the remains of her garden.

17:50.133 --> 17:51.766 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75%
With no year-round residence

17:51.800 --> 17:56.466 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and just a few summer cottages,
Appledore was mostly abandoned,

17:56.500 --> 17:58.700 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65%
an island of bushes
and poison ivy

17:58.733 --> 18:01.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
presided over by several
thousand gulls.

18:01.566 --> 18:03.833 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
And there it remained

18:03.866 --> 18:08.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
until a curious Cornell
professor had an idea.

18:08.900 --> 18:11.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
Dr. John M. Kingsbury
was seeking a place

18:11.833 --> 18:14.700 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
to offer a summer
marine science program.

18:14.733 --> 18:18.266 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
In order to create his program
on wild Appledore,

18:18.300 --> 18:22.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
Kingsbury had to acquire boats
and build a wharf, roads,

18:22.066 --> 18:25.366 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
dormitories, dining hall,
and a laboratory,

18:25.400 --> 18:28.600 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
and provide electricity, fresh
water, and a sewage system.

18:28.633 --> 18:31.100 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
>> The Shoals Marine Lab
is run jointly

18:31.133 --> 18:34.200 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5%
by Cornell University and the
University of New Hampshire.

18:34.233 --> 18:36.866 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
The primary mission of the lab
is to provide education

18:36.900 --> 18:39.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
in the marine sciences
for undergraduates.

18:39.533 --> 18:41.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
And money raised
by our garden tours

18:41.700 --> 18:43.266 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
goes to support that mission.

18:43.300 --> 18:45.600 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
>> NARRATOR:
Kingsbury became interested

18:45.633 --> 18:48.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
in Celia Thaxter's book,
and the idea

18:48.633 --> 18:52.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
of recreating her garden moved
from concept to reality.

18:52.333 --> 18:55.666 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
>> I felt that it would be
useful to try to revive

18:55.700 --> 18:59.066 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70%
Celia Thaxter's garden.

18:59.100 --> 19:01.300 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
As a botanist, that was of
scientific interest to me.

19:01.333 --> 19:04.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
As a gardener, it was of
considerable interest to me.

19:04.733 --> 19:08.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
>> NARRATOR: Kingsbury cleared
the site of the original garden,

19:08.200 --> 19:10.100 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70%
and using archival seeds

19:10.133 --> 19:13.400 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
acquired from Cornell
plantations, by the late 1970s

19:13.433 --> 19:16.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
he was able to plant,
as near as possible,

19:16.533 --> 19:19.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
the same flowers that
Celia herself had nurtured

19:19.833 --> 19:23.533 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
so painstakingly
a century earlier.

19:23.566 --> 19:25.766 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
>> After we got
the garden planted,

19:25.800 --> 19:28.000 align:left position:35% line:83% size:55%
people began
to find out about it.

19:28.033 --> 19:31.100 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
We didn't publicize it at all,
but there was

19:31.133 --> 19:34.233 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
a tremendous amount of interest
there as the word leaked out

19:34.266 --> 19:37.166 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
that it had been
brought back to life.

19:37.200 --> 19:41.133 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
>> And this was probably
in 1990.

19:41.166 --> 19:44.066 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
And that's when
the tour started.

19:44.100 --> 19:47.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
Every week, people would
go out on the Laighton.

19:47.833 --> 19:52.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
>> The tours got started
in a very interesting way.

19:52.100 --> 19:58.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5%
Dr. Heiser, a former director
of the Shoals Marine Laboratory,

19:58.366 --> 20:02.433 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
was annoyed with
the people coming to see

20:02.466 --> 20:06.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
this infamous garden,
and had the brilliant idea

20:06.566 --> 20:08.866 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
that if he picked one day
that they could come,

20:08.900 --> 20:10.500 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
instead of just showing up
willy-nilly,

20:10.533 --> 20:12.600 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5%
and then charging them

20:12.633 --> 20:16.400 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
an amount that he thought
was exorbitant,

20:16.433 --> 20:18.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
they would certainly stop coming
and bothering him on his island

20:18.833 --> 20:20.966 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5%
while he was teaching classes.

20:21.000 --> 20:23.400 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
And it had the opposite effect,
and they're still coming

20:23.433 --> 20:24.466 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55%
to this day.

20:24.500 --> 20:28.000 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
It's become one
of our very best,

20:28.033 --> 20:29.766 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
possibly our very best,
ambassadors

20:29.800 --> 20:31.433 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
for the Shoals Marine Lab,

20:31.466 --> 20:33.633 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
because it brings
so many people to see.

20:33.666 --> 20:35.666 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60%
It's a goodwill
ambassador for us.

20:35.700 --> 20:38.400 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75%
>> Walking up to the garden,
it seems very unassuming.

20:38.433 --> 20:41.566 align:left position:17.5% line:5% size:72.5%
But once you walk into the
garden and look at the variety

20:41.600 --> 20:45.933 align:left position:27.5% line:83% size:62.5%
of heritage plants
in the garden, and walk

20:45.966 --> 20:49.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
through that arbor with
the holly growing on it

20:49.766 --> 20:52.666 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
and you see the foundation
of the house in the background

20:52.700 --> 20:54.533 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80%
and compare that to the pictures
that you see,

20:54.566 --> 20:56.900 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70%
and you realize how much
you really are standing

20:56.933 --> 20:59.066 align:left position:17.5% line:89% size:72.5%
in the middle of history.

20:59.100 --> 21:01.666 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75%
>> NARRATOR: While Kingsbury
could oversee the garden,

21:01.700 --> 21:04.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5%
the tasks of planting
and maintaining the flowers

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through the season
required too much of his time.

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Fortunately, a loyal group
of volunteers,

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led by Virginia Chisholm of the
Rye Beach Driftwood Garden Club,

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committed to weekly visits
to Appledore.

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>> One day Ginny was
in the bookstore,

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and the proprietor talked to her
about his interaction

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with Dr. Kingsbury
from the Shoals Marine Lab

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and asked her about her interest
in possibly taking on

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yet another garden.

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And Ginny,

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whose husband, Bill Chisholm,
had been a birder

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out on Appledore for many years,
decide maybe it was her turn

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to get out to the Shoals
and get involved

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in Celia's garden
in one way, shape, or form.

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At that time,
little did she know

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that for the next 25
or so years,

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she would be the grand dame
of the garden.

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My husband Mark and I went out
to the Shoals Marine Lab

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about 12 years ago to an adult
and family ed course of theirs

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entitled,
"A Garden is a Sea of Flowers."

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After our experience
on the island at this course,

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about a week later,
our telephone rang, and it was

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Virginia Chisholm, the caretaker
at the time of Celia's garden.

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And she said, "I'm getting old
and I need to pass

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"my torch on
to some younger blood.

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"Would you and your husband
be interested in coming back

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to take care of this garden?"

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And Mark and I replied,
"This dream has come true!

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"Yes, of course, Ginny,
we would love to take care

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of that garden for you."

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>> The fact that I had been
going out to Appledore

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since I was a very small boy...
it was my childhood playground.

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So any opportunity for me
personally to be

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on Appledore Island was enough.

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>> In the winter, Ginny and I
and Mark got together

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to talk about how,
over the years, and where,

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she has procured the seeds from,
and the relationship

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between Ginny and the
UNH greenhouse, who grows

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the plants for Celia's garden.

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>> What we're trying to do
is produce a plant

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that's large enough to go
to the island,

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but doesn't outgrow the 606

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before it's ready to travel
out to the island.

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So as you look at the bench,

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it kind of matures-- things that
are started earlier and then

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things that are started later,
so they'll be all

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about the same size when they're
ready to go out to the island.

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We do direct-seed a few things
that go directly into the pot

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that don't transplant well,
so they go out as a unit,

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rather than going out
in a six-pack.

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>> NARRATOR: In early June,
led by Pam and Mark,

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a group of volunteers
transfers the seedlings

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from the greenhouse

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to the dock at Portsmouth
for the trip to Appledore.

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The flowers are planted
the next day in Celia's garden.

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>> Bill Chisholm,
Ginny's husband,

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who's a dear, dear, dear man,

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his favorite bloom in the
garden, and one of mine also,

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is the salpiglossis.

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He liked it because
he liked to say,

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"salpiglossis."

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I like it because it's
very colorful and beautiful.

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>> When I arrived in Rye, I
found out that Ginny Chisholm

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was starting looking
for volunteers

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to help with maintaining

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and taking care of Celia
Thaxter's garden on Appledore.

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And having been a fan
of Celia Thaxter's poetry

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since my childhood,

25:05.466 --> 25:10.500 align:left position:17.5% line:83% size:72.5%
I was very eager to get in
and join this happy group.

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>> The single most asked-about
bloom in the garden, hands down,

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100%, always, is the scabiosa
just inside the fence.

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It's this dark,
almost a black, bloom.

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>> "Yet still the summers come.

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"The flowers bloom,
are gathered and adored,

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"not without wistful thought
of the eyes that will see them

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no more."

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>> NARRATOR: Celia Thaxter's
star shown brightly

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during her later years.

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But it dimmed for decades
after her death.

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With the recreation
of her garden,

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the life of this remarkable
Victorian woman

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once again commands
our attention.

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>> "Often I hear people say,

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"'How do you make your plants
flourish like this?'

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"as they admire the little
flower patch

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"I cultivate in summer,

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"or the window gardens that
bloom for me in the winter.

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"'I can never make my plants
blossom like this!

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"What is your secret?'

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"And I answer with one word--
love, for that includes all:

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"the patience that endures
continual trial,

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"the constancy that
makes perseverance possible,

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"the power of foregoing ease
of mind and body to minister

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"to the necessities
of the thing beloved,

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"and the subtle bond
of sympathy, which is

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as important, if not more so,
than all the rest."

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Celia Thaxter.

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