Chef Haller’s Love Letter to Portsmouth
It all started with a hotdog at Gilley's
Portsmouth and Dover Still Feuding Over 1623
Wait a minute. Before you start designing your company float for the city’s next anniversary celebration, answer this question: Was Portsmouth actually founded in 1623? And no, that big rock with the carved date at the foot of Market Street does not prove a thing. Rocks can lie. Historians …
Nazi Sub Souvenir Surfaces on eBay
Astute readers will note that this true story found its way into the novel POINT OF GRAVES
The Lost Interview with Historian Dorothy Vaughan, Part 1
In 1969, Charles B. Hosmer asked the president of Strawbery Banke Museum about the dawning days of Portsmouth preservation
How Mr. Fields Saved “The Scarlet Letter”
Without Mr. Fieldsm you might never have written the term paper
Haley Cottage in Shambles
Even in Celia Thaxter's young days, the Haley Cottage needed work
Rooming with the Love Generation
Peace, love, and overcrowding at the University of New Hampshire in 1969
Political Poems for the Common Man
Sam Walter Foss distrusted politicians and rich folks, trusted common folks
Let’s Create a Portsmouth Cultural Center
A 2007 grassroots effort saved the Old Library from being sold off by he city
The Sleepwalking Murder of Sally Cochran
Abraham Prescott was not guilty of murder, he claimed, because he was asleep at the time.
Why Eileen Foley is Beloved
Elected eight times at Portsmouth, NH mayor