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| The Hontvet House on Smuttynose Island |
The "murder" house on Smuttynose Island is long gone, ravaged by 19th century souvenir hunters who literally carried away blood spattered bits of wall and floorboard. Today the bodies of Anethe Christensen and Karen Christensen lie in a quiet Portsmouth, NH cemetery, ten miles in from their island home. A few streets away in a glass case an ax with a broken handle, the one most experts agree Louis Wagner used to carve the life from the two Norwegian immigrants, lies on mute display.
I used to go to Monhegan Island as much as I could. Smuttynose is right next to it, but I only went there a few times. Like so many islands along the Maine coast Monhegan and Smuttynose not only have a long and interesting history, they are also beautiful. And rugged.
