Polishing Up the Button Factory
In 1987, the iconic West End arts community had a visionary new landlord
Meet Edward Stickney, the American Apollo
The greatest dumbbell lifter in the world, Stickney claimed
Roosevelt Used Paul Jones’ Body to Pitch His Great White Fleet
Only those who wanted a bigger Navy were fit to be in the room with Captain Jones, the president claimed
Strange Halloween Characters from Seacoast History
Make Halloween a teachable moment for your kids with historically accurate costumes
When Portsmouth Changed Its Name
A New Hampshire town "accidentally" named Strawberry Bank
A Brush with the Shaggs
A vintage chat with Dot Wiggin of the Seacoast-based sister band that reinvented music
Portsmouth Staged “No Kings” Play in 1778 Despite Theater Ban
Poet Jonathan Mitchel Sewall compared Roman Senator Cato to Washington
Indigenous History is American History
Before Europeans, a local historian wrote, “the noble Piscataqua was unvisited and unknown.”
In Search of a Shared Past We Can All Learn From
All things must pass on Daniel Street and everywhere
Tales of a Real Ghostbuster
Haunted tales and haunted tours are holiday fun – just don't call it history
Nora Perry and Portsmouth’s Other “Lady Wentworth”
A second seacoast New Hampshire marriage scandal in an 1875 poem
Timeline: The Life of John Paul Jones
A quick chronology of a complex Revolutionary War hero