A Quick Dive into Wentworth by the Sea History
From Campbell to Smith to Ocean Properties

From Campbell to Smith to Ocean Properties

Five downtown cinemas vied for patrons. Only one survives.


The stripped-down memorial moved from the city center to a waterfront park

John Albee meets a man with three dead wives

The second most famous employee at Wentworth by the Sea Hotel

Penny postcard pop culture from the Curt Teich company.

Puritans believed in religious freedom, but only for themselves.

It reappears with the tide to remind us how things used to be

Six feet below the surface, a time capsule waits and waits and waits.


Late in life, William Dean Howells briefly described his first meeting with Celia Thaxter.


