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Anne's Tablet

Mackinac Island, Italy

Anne's Tablet

Anne's Tablet is a 1916 Art Nouveau sculptural installation by William Ordway Partridge located within Mackinac Island State Park adjacent to Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island. Consisting of stone benches and a bronze plaque, the overlook was built as a memorial to local author Constance Fenimore Woo

lson. The text of the tablet is: Anne She used to whisper to them To tell them how much she loved them ‘Her old friends’ She loved the island and the island trees; She loved the wild larches, The tall spires of the spruces Bossed with light green, The gray pines and the rings of the juniper Hear the rustling and the laughter of the forest And the wash of the waters on the pebbly beach In Memoriam Constance Fenimore Woolson Author - Traveller Has expressed her love of this island and its beauty in the words of her heroine ‘Anne’.

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