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he used to see T. S. Eliot's ghost or hear his ghost."
The spacious, open home, with its natural wood shin-
gles and partially enclosed wraparound porch, became
too big for Hawkes and one of her two sons who lived
there with her. She put the house, which is wedged
between two massive rock formations, on the market.
On December 3, 2014, it sold for 1.3 million dollars to
the T. S. Eliot Estate in London, England. Two of the
Eliot Estate Trustees, Clare Reihill and Judith Hooper,
had visited the home two months prior and decided to
purchase it.
The plan is to turn the home into a retreat house for
American poets and Eliot scholars who want to spend
six undisturbed weeks working on writing projects. Rei-
hill imagines five people at a time staying at the houseȃ
having quiet time to write, sharing meals throughout
the day, and conversing over a glass of wine in the
living room in the evening.
This will not happen overnight, though. The Estate
will spend this year working with the East Gloucester
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