Caroline Ellis (b. 1942)
Caroline Ellis came to Nantucket with her husband Douglass (whom she has known since nursery school) while still in college. Douglass worked at the 'Sconset Casino and the couple lived at Wade Cottages. Caroline loved 'Sconset at first sight because of its ocean smell and wonderful old houses and hoped someday to make it her own. The Ellises purchased a two-room fishing cottage in Codfish Park that had once been a poker parlor for women. They later moved to Bluff Cottage on Front Street, where they enjoyed village life with their daughter, Sarah. Caroline's involvement in Nantucket clubs and nonprofits dates from her first arrival on island. Always an avid gardener, she joined the Nantucket Garden Club, where she continues to promote the conservation of gardens and lawns, most recently becoming active in the Garden Conservancy. President of the 'Sconset Civic Association for a term, she later joined the board of the 'Sconset Trust, and became its executive director. She was a founder of Nantucket Preservation Trust in 1997, and currently serves as vice president. Caroline also serves on the board of Landmark House. She and her husband now reside in Quaise, in a house known as Blueberry Hill.

The embroidered narrative was commissioned by Caroline and Douglass for their fortieth wedding anniversary on December 21, 2003. It shows the Ellises' property at Blueberry Hill, with their beloved tupelo trees, Rhode Island Red chickens, vegetable garden, daughter Sarah reading in a hammock, pet cats, roses, poison ivy, goldfinches, whip-poor-wills, and the protective constellation of Orion above in the sky.