Tour
of Fairy Houses
in Portsmouth Gardens!
Sat/Sun September 24th & 25th
Map to the event - Mapquest
Tour Summary
Walking Tour Details
Contacts & Media Opportunities
Tour Schedule and Tickets
Download printable PDF Flyer
Presented by Friends of the South End (FOSE)
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Tour Summary
Take
an enchanting walking tour through private and public gardens in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire’s
historic South End. The tour features whimsical houses for fairies
built with natural materials. These unique creations will be featured at:
• 8
private gardens
• Prescott Park
• Strawbery Banke
• Children’s Museum
• Wentworth-Gardner Museum
Help Build a Fairy Houses
Village!
The tour concludes on Peirce Island where you’re invited
to bring a bag of natural materials and help build a Fairy House Village!
Children’s
author and illustrator Tracy Kane, creator of “The Fairy
Houses Series,” will be present to inspire and help
fairy house builders.
Come join in the fun at this memorable and unique family event!
Ticket proceeds will benefit: Prescott Park, Strawbery Banke, Children’s Museum, Wentworth-Gardner/Tobias Lear Houses Assoc.
Do you have fairy clothes
or special wings? You are welcome to wear them, if you like!
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Walking
Tour Details
The Friends of the South End (FOSE) invite children and the
young at heart to
enter the whimsical world of fairies on this enchanting, self-guided
walking tour of fairy house displays
in 4 public and 8 private
gardens in the historic South End neighborhood. This unique “one-of-a-kind” garden
tour will begin at Peirce Island’s playground. Participants will then
embark on fun fairy festivities in a variety of themed garden settings throughout
the South End, including Strawbery Banke Museum’s Victorian
Garden,
The Children’s Museum’s Urban Garden,
Wentworth-Gardner Museum’s Stone Wall Garden,
Prescott Park’s Seaside
Garden, a Kitchen
Garden, a Fairies Water Garden, and a
Container Garden.
All ticket proceeds to benefit: Prescott Park, Strawbery Banke Museum, The
Children’s
Museum and Wentworth-Gardner/Tobias Lear Houses Assoc..
At the Wentwortth-Gardner you can cast your ballot for a “People’s Choice Award” at the Architect’s Fairy Houses Design display which will include detailed drawings of the fairy house design process from concept to creation submitted by local area architects.
Fairy house builders of all ages are encouraged to bring their own natural building materials (such as sticks, leaves, bark, stones, pinecones, berries, grasses, moss, feathers, shells) and participate in creating a Fairy Houses Village at Peirce Island at the end of the tour. Tracy Kane, children’s author and illustrator of the “The Fairy Houses Series”, will be available to sell and sign her books and videos.
This event is being presented by Friends of the South End (FOSE), a local non-profit neighborhood association, in conjunction with the following generous sponsors: Sandie Dika-Keller Williams Coastal Realty, Ocean National Bank, G. Willikers Toy Store, Rolling Green Nursery, The Rosa Restaurant and NV Hair Studio. Students fromYork High School, Maine will be contributing Fairy Houses to the event.
Raffle:
Two indoor fairy houses handcrafted by Marcia Van Dyke and artist/designer
Barbara Cacarillo, donated by Drake Farm Books & Antiques for a Raffle
draw on the final day (Sunday) of the tour at Peirce Island. Raffle tickets
are on sale now
at G. Willikers Toy Store on Market St. and at Drake Farm Books and Antiques
on Rt. 1 in Rye.
Raffle tickets will be available at Peirce Island the day of the tour.
The New England seacoast tradition of building fairy houses began over 50 years ago, most notably on Monhegan and Squirrel Islands off the coast of Maine. A frequent visitor to these islands, Tracy Kane was inspired to create “The Fairy Houses Series”, consisting of picture books “Fairy Houses”, “Fairy Boat” and “Fairy Flight” plus video “Kristen’s Fairy House.” The Series has won numerous awards including “Parents’ Choice Gold Award”, “Top 10 Children’s Book Sense pick” - American Booksellers Association and “Top 10 Notable” - American Libraries Association.
Tracy’s work inspires families to share the wonders of nature and fantasies of fairies through the fun activity of building fairy houses.
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FOSE
Fairy Houses Tour Event contacts:
Susan Benedict, President (603) 433-0335 [email protected]
Judy Nerbonne, Programs (603) 436-8439 [email protected] :[email protected]
Deborah Richards, Planning Committee (603) 433-4792
“Fairy Houses Series” author/illustrator
contact: [email protected]
Media: Pre-Event Photo/Background Story Opportunities
Any media interested
in background photos, interviews with architects in the design contest,
or attending
Fairy Houses Workshop events, should contact:
Susan Benedict, President, FOSE at: (603) 433-0335 [email protected]
Fairy Houses Workshops with Tracy Kane in preparation for this tour will be held at the following Portsmouth locations:
Thursday, August 25th @ 2 p.m.
Mark H. Wentworth Home, 346 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, NH
At this nursing home, residents and their families will create fairy houses
in the on-site gardens on the banks of the South Mill Pond. This garden will
be open to the public as one of the 8 private gardens on the Fairy Houses Garden
Tour. For more information on Mark H. Wentworth Home contact: Jane Sweeney,
Activities Director, (603) 436-0169.
Thursday, September 8th @ 4 p.m.
Stoodley Tavern, Strawbery Bank Museum, Portsmouth, NH. Corner of Hancock
and Washington Street.
Local South End residents will be constructing fairy houses for the 7 other
private display gardens
Light-Beams Publishing,
(publishers of "The Fairy.Houses Series")
Media Center
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