Oscar Laighton in his boat "Wild Duck" at Star Island. Celia Thaxter's brother Oscar was also a poet and an artist and wrote "90 Years on the Isles of Shoals." He died in the 1930s just shy of his 100th birthday and was well known among Star Island conferees. (Laing Collection)

From the book: Gosport Remembered
By Peter E. Randall & Maryellen Burke ©1997