Talk:Green Acre on the Piscataqua

Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 415 Linden Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091-2844
©1991, 2005, 2012 by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America

Originally published in 1991 by Green Acre Baha'i School Council in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary
of the Sarah Farmer Inn. Second edition published 2005 in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the
Portsmouth Peace Treaty. Third edition published 2012 in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the
Visit of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to Green Acre. All editions produced for Green Acre Bahá’í School 938 Main Street,
Eliot, Maine 03903

Third edition book design by Patrick Falso. First and second edition book design by Rita Leydon.
Map by Lyn Springman, in memory of Allyn M. Kelsey.
Photo re-touching by Tim Perry, Mary Collins, and Tara Tawater.
Dove motif from Sarah Farmer’s stationery.

FOR LIBRARY USE
Main entry under title:
Green Acre on the Piscataqua
I. Bahá’í Faith IL. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, 1844-1921
IIL. Sarah Jane Farmer, 1847-1916
IV. Portsmouth Peace Treaty, 1905
V. Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905

Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank Jaleh Dashti-Gibson, Ardith Tennant, Ann Melville,
Brent Poirier, Tim Moore, Patrick Falso, Tim Perry, Diana Rohrback, Mary Collins, Tara Tawater, James
and Jeannine Sacco, Chet Makoski, the Regional Bahá’í Council of the Northeast, Douglas Martin,
Jonathan Menon, Nancy Davis, Allison Grover, Wandra Harmsen, Rabi Musah, Farhad Rassekh,

Bob Rosenfeld, Keivan Towfigh, Rich Messeder, Marguerite Matthews, Gregory Gathers, Deborah Watrous,
Doug Mishler, Leigh Schmidt, Charles (Chuck) Doleac, Mara Khavari, Blanche Milligan, Richard Candee,
Chip Noon, Rita Leydon, Dianne and David Jester, Bonnie and Chris Wible, Catherine Borovicka,
Sue Senchuk, Diane and Stephen Brandon, Larry and Leona Hosack, Jeannie Hunt, Patti Tomarelli,
Samantha French, Melinda Salazar, Larry McCullough, Kathy Lindenmayer, Manoutch Kazemzadeh,
Mary Wohlleb, Betty Fisher, James (Bud) Humphrey, Terry Cassiday, Lee Minnerly, and Suni Hannan,
in addition to those mentioned on page 137.

Photo credits: All of the photographs that appear in this book are from the Eliot Bahá’í Archives,
with the exception of those from the National Bahá’í Archives (x,26, 32, 45 (top), 42 (top), 51 (top), 58, 63,
70, 80,100, 112, 175); Dr. Mary Tomanio (24); Green Acre Archives (38, 44); the Portsmouth Athenaeum
(47, 48); Mark Sadan (43); Carol Kelsey Rutstein (100); Robert Harris (113, 116, 117); Anne Perry,
Diane Brandon, and others (118-36); Kennebunk Savings Bank (145); Joseph W. P. Frost (172, 181,
182 right); Emanuel Reimer (182 left).

Cover photo taken on August 16, 1912, the day of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s arrival at Green Acre