The 1892 Siege of Cedar Island
Shoaler news ripped from the pages of the Boston Globe
The Saga of the “Jenny Lind” Figurehead
Was it really attached to a Portsmouth-built clipper ship?
The Candidates at the Fair
Sam Walter Foss tackles local politicans again
Where Wagner Got His Bloody Rubber Boots
A strange Victorian ad leads to 5 Market Street in Portsmouth
Waging Peace in the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
A nail biting month of negotiations between Russia and Japan
The Myth of Hampton’s Viking Grave
A 1902 article kicked off a legend that refuses to die
Silent Film Actor William Haddock Was Born Here
A pioneering Portsmouth movie director almost lost to history
Hall Jackson was a Revolutionary First Responder
“Hardly any other medical name in New Hampshire stands out brighter than that of Hall Jackson.”
My House is Not for Sale!
I wondered who was sending these weird postcards
Eccentric “Pilgrim Stranger” Preached to Congress
Seacoast's Harriet Livermore dreamed of a day when women would be "clothed in the sun, and walk on the moon."
Beautiful Downtown Portsmouth in 1940
Beautify America--Get a haircut!
They Left New England for Canada and Took Their Houses
A Canadian perspective on early migration north to Nova Scotia and beyond