Still Still, Not Dead
“In the late ’90s, Kennedy secured a summer job at Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals lodged off the New Hampshire coast primarily used as a Unitarian Universalist retreat center. Although Yankee magazine once labeled the island’s seasonal positions as some of the “best summer jobs in New England,” there isn’t much to occupy the restive staff — not even television. “The place breeds insanity,” says Kennedy. So a loose-knit collective of artists formed, looking for creative ways to amuse themselves. They learned how to box. They made their own wine. They built tattoo guns out of old Walkmans. And then, sadly, some of them weren’t asked to come back.” —
The ghosts among us, Camille Dodero, Boston Phoenix, 29 April 2005