A Quick Dive into Wentworth by the Sea History
From Campbell to Smith to Ocean Properties
Ornate Olympia Theater Lost to Progress
Five downtown cinemas vied for patrons. Only one survives.
Christening USS Billfish in 1942
Backstory to the baptism of a submarine
A Moving Memorial to Ensign Charles Hovey
The stripped-down memorial moved from the city center to a waterfront park
Chatting with the Gravedigger in New Castle
John Albee meets a man with three dead wives
Olympic Swimmer Helen Wainwright Hired at Hotel
The second most famous employee at Wentworth by the Sea Hotel
Girls and Buoys 1905 Postcard
Penny postcard pop culture from the Curt Teich company.
Seacoast Quakers Tortured by Puritans
Puritans believed in religious freedom, but only for themselves.
Rye’s Underwater Petrified Forest
It reappears with the tide to remind us how things used to be
Do Not Open Until 2123
Six feet below the surface, a time capsule waits and waits and waits.
Just Wild About Hairy Ancestors
Male hairstyles from the Victorian era
When William Met Celia
Late in life, William Dean Howells briefly described his first meeting with Celia Thaxter.