7 miles off New Hampshire‘s diminutive but welcoming and sparkling shoreline, Lie the isles of shoals, a small grouping of islands, really spits of land exist. Most are uninhabitable, but two of them, AppleDore and Star Island, Have been the homes of fishermen in the past, and now host visitors, Mainly scientists and college students at Appledore, and families and conference gatherings at Star. You can see the sparkling oceanic house from the shoreline, especially at night, as twinkling lights offshore. Those lights were dimmed last summer because of the pandemic. But in a short time, Joe Watts, chief executive officer of the star island corporation nonprofit, will reopen the sprawling structure to the public once again.