Writing on stone
Subtitle: scenes from a Maine island life
By: Christina Marsden Gillis ; photographs by Peter Ralston ; with a foreword by Philip Conkling.
Publisher: University Press of New England; Island Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hanover [N.H.]; Rockland, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781584656975
Subjects: Gillis, Christina Marsden; Gillis, Christina Marsden -- Family; Gillis, Benjamin Robert, -- 1965-1991 -- Death and burial; Sons -- Maine -- Great Gott Island -- Death; Sepulchral monuments -- Maine -- Great Gott Island; Great Gott Island (Me.) -- Social life and customs; Great Gott Island (Me.) -- Biography; Great Gott Island (Me.) -- Description and travel; Great Gott Island (Me.) -- Pictorial works
Genres: Biography.; Pictorial works.
Description: "Having purchased the house of poet and writer Ruth Moore in 1965, Christina Gillis has been a summer resident of Gotts Island for more than forty years. Each summer she and her husband, John, arrive with their books, projects, and lives. On the island they watched their young sons, Chris and Ben, turn from "two small blond boys in high-top overalls" to "shirtless adolescents" and finally to young men." "But the place that had been a constant center in their lives assumed a more profound significance for the Gillis family in 1992 when they buried the ashes of their son Ben in the island cemetery. Ben had been killed seven months earlier while flying a small plane in Kenya. In the cemetery overlooking the sea, once the heart of the village and still central to the community, he joined generations of earlier islanders to become a "name in stone.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172).