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
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
Zoffoli Motors Super-88 Model with Rocket Engine
Drive this baby right off the lot for $2,000
Visit Portsmouth in Your 1955 Ford
“Portsmouth is a proud town,” Eleanor Early wrote, “full of descendants and an occasional ghost.”
Celia Thaxter Worshipped Nature
Her real church was her garden and the natural world
Edith Perry Estes Comes to Town
A well-known Boston writer for children was an activist for the New England Women's Press Club