Pontine Theatre will bring the history of the Isles of Shoals to life at Seacoast Science Center on Tuesday, November 9, at 7:00 pm. Scenes from Pontine’s popular original production, “The Isles of Shoals: Eternal Sound of the Sea,” will be presented as part of the regular meeting of the Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association. (Continued below)

The presentation features the colorful characters of the islands’ once-thriving fishing community, the vacationers who visited the Shoals during the resort hotel era of the late 1800s, and the notorious murders on Smuttynose Island. 

Pontine Theatre’s co-artistic directors, M. Marguerite Mathews and Greg Gathers, drew their script from the writings of two prominent New England authors, Celia Thaxter and Nathaniel Hawthorne. The authors met in 1852, when Hawthorne visited the Thaxters’ hotel on Appledore Island. 

The special presentation is sponsored by the Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association (ISHRA), whose mission is to expand awareness of the natural and human history of the Isles of Shoals, located just six miles off the New Hampshire coast.  

Tickets are $10 (free for ISHRA members) and may be purchased at the door. The Seacoast Science Center is located at 570 Ocean Boulevard in Rye. Refreshments will be served at 6:30 pm, and the ISHRA meeting and special presentation are from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. For more information visit ishra.org or call (603) 431-2616.