“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
A 1927 Cartoon Map of Star Island
Plus the full First Annual Nonprofit Report from the Star Island Corporation 1917
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
A Timeline: The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
Biographer Norma Mandel creates a chronology
Blood Science on Trial in 1873
Fish or human corpuscles? The Smuttynose murder was early CSI
Judge Woodbury Langdon, Impeached in 1790
Impeached because he failed to show up for work