In My Father’s Wallet
Two dollars in cahs and two precious discoveries
Portsmouth Lyceum was TEDx of the 1800s
Between the church and the theater was the educational Lyceum Movement
My Hero, James T. Fields
Kind and funny guy, a great writer, inspired editor, and publisher too
The Portsmouth Plot to Annex New Castle
New Castle rebuffs offer to be absorbed by its big sister
Top 10 NH Seacoast Natural Disasters
Historically, Mother Nature has been kind to the region
Kelp: A Lively 1888 Novel With a Terrible Title
An Isles of Shoals adventure by a Kittery-born writer
A Snapshot of Our Earliest Photographers
They captured the 19th-century for us
The Saga of the “Jenny Lind” Figurehead
Was it really attached to a Portsmouth-built clipper ship?
Where Wagner Got His Bloody Rubber Boots
A strange Victorian ad leads to 5 Market Street in Portsmouth
Waging Peace in the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
A nail biting month of negotiations between Russia and Japan
The Myth of Hampton’s Viking Grave
A 1902 article kicked off a legend that refuses to die
Hall Jackson was a Revolutionary First Responder
“Hardly any other medical name in New Hampshire stands out brighter than that of Hall Jackson.”