When a Building You Love Dies
State Street fire sparks memories
“A Tryst” by Celia Thaxter
Her poem foreshadowed a Titanic-like disaster
Ace Karlo, the Man who Built Portsmouth
It's 1986, and one of the city's celebrities wants me to meet him in the Square
Snow Fell All Summer Two Centuries Ago
President James Monroe faced the climate change crisis in 1816
Recycling Old Portsmouth Tree Tales
“They are not going to live forever,” says Peter Loughlin, the Johnny Appleseed of Portsmouth.
Reviving the Good Old Days
The author manages a country store with a penny candy counter in 1975
The Coroner’s Team Arrives at the Smuttynose Murder Scene in 1873
Behind the horrific scene on a dark winter night on an empty, isolated island
The Devil and Jonathan Moulton
A heroic and successful life tainted by poetry and popular opinion
Land-locked: Celia Thaxter’s First Published Poem
Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell was impressed
Blood Science on Trial in 1873
Fish or human corpuscles? The Smuttynose murder was early CSI
Remembering Jay Smith
The Press Room and the Music Hall are his legacy
Old Man of the Mountain Nearly Sank the USS Raleigh
A tiny seacoast, but a powerful history