YORK, MAINE–When Carly Glovinski showed up for a stint at the nonprofit artists residency Surf Point in 2021, she saw the foundation of an old house on the grounds.
“This whole area was just a blank slab,” Glovinski said, “but it was a slab with feeling.”
Writer May Sarton (1912-1995) lived alone in that house for 22 years. Her 1977 book “The House By the Sea” is her journal about writing, gardening, and entertaining artist friends there. The house, called Wild Knoll, had been torn down in 2020.
“On day two of the residency I’m calling the director, saying, ‘I have an idea. What if we put the house back as a garden?’” Glovinski said. “To make this a place again a sanctuary for artists, for creatives, for the residents.”
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