SeacoastHistory
Notes from America's Smallest Seacoast
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 …
Astute readers will note that this true story found its way into the novel POINT OF GRAVES
In 1969, Charles B. Hosmer asked the president of Strawbery Banke Museum about the dawning days of Portsmouth preservation
Without Mr. Fieldsm you might never have written the term paper
Even in Celia Thaxter's young days, the Haley Cottage needed work
Peace, love, and overcrowding at the University of New Hampshire in 1969
Sam Walter Foss distrusted politicians and rich folks, trusted common folks
A 2007 grassroots effort saved the Old Library from being sold off by he city
Abraham Prescott was not guilty of murder, he claimed, because he was asleep at the time.
Elected eight times at Portsmouth, NH mayor
A prize fighter worth thousands poses for the Davis Brothers
