Nantucket poet, author, and historian Mary Eliza Starbuck (1856-1938), known as "Molly" to family and friends, spent all but the first few years of her life in the house that had been passed down to her at 8 Pleasant Street. Writing in the 1920s, she produced an elegant volume of poems entitled Nantucket and Other Verses and a book of historical and personal reminiscences called My House and I. She was a founder and the first secretary of the Nantucket Historical Association in 1894. Starbuck traced her ancestry back to Nantucket's earliest settler families; she chose never to marry. Her poetry reflects a strong kinship with the landscape and the sea, and an awareness of complex personal relationships. Her delightful memoirs offer a picture of growing up in a rich cultural environment on Nantucket at the turn of the century.

This embroidered narrative includes text from her evocative title poem "Nantucket." It also features one of Susan's own favorite island places - Folger's Marsh, at the Life-Saving Museum.