Editor's Note: This monthly series titled At The Athenaeum to highlight the treasures contained the collections of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. The series will appear the second Sunday of each month It ...

Celia Laighton Thaxter was no saint. The famed 19th century poet of the Isles of Shoals harbored many of the racial, social and cultural prejudices of her day. She often mistook rumors, gossip, and ...

I n the introduction of her 1894 book, "An Island Garden," Celia Thaxter wrote about her love of flowers. "Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, ...

To visit the Portsmouth Athenaeum's wonderful new exhibition of the art of Celia Laighton Thaxter is to be immediately impressed by the vision of a woman who was ahead of her time. The exhibit, "One ...

The colorful island garden of 19th-century writer Celia Thaxter will be blooming at Prescott Park in Portsmouth again this summer. The colorful island garden of 19th-century writer Celia Thaxter will ...

The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, the first exhibition in more than 25 years to focus on Hassam's paintings of Appledore, the ...

Painter Celia Thaxter Hubbard launched the Botolph Group art gallery on Newbury Street during the 1950s with a visionary eye toward fostering contemporary expression in religious art. By 1967, her ...

In her 1894 book, "An Island Garden," Celia Leighton Thaxter wrote "of all the wonderful things in the universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank ...

IF it were ever intended that a desolate island in the deep sea should be inhabited by one solitary family, then indeed Celia Thaxter was the fitting daughter of such a house. In her history of the ...

DURHAM— The enchanting and colorful garden of beloved writer Celia Thaxter will bloom in its original home plot on Appledore Island after a two-year hiatus. Flower lovers and fans of the popular poet ...