Hidden Rooms, Open Hearts
The secret sanctuary behind a smoky curtain
Sam Allen Bought New Hampshire
For a quarter million dollars, he owned it all, or thought he did
What About Seacoast Indigenous Peoples?
We're trying, but 12,000 years of Native history is still often ignored or stereotyped
What Lies Beneath “New Portsmouth”?
A controversial North End hotel dig yields ground-breaking colonial history
Where Kittery Got Its Name
A New England town named after a house in Devon, England
Why Writers Starve
The official introduction to the guidebook I never get around to writing
Jane Kaufmann: Life Plus Clay
Potter, painter, sculptor, author, satirist, philosopher, etc.
“March of Time” Redefined Broadcast News
Louis de Rochemont newsreels used fakery to dramatize facts
The Lost Interview with Historian Dorothy Vaughan, Part 2
A lost 1969 interview reveals the candid opinions and emotions of the city's original preservationist
The Trivial Pursuits of a Hyper-Local Historian
Mitt Romney, poetry, UFOs and whatever I'm into this week
Reviving the 1774 Portsmouth Powder Alarm Again
Every decade or two, it's time to raid the fort and remember what it meant