Strange Halloween Characters from Seacoast History
Make Halloween a teachable moment for your kids with historically accurate costumes
How Did the Jones House Turn Yellow?
Sears Weatherbeater paints American history in the 70s
When Portsmouth Changed Its Name
A New Hampshire town "accidentally" named Strawberry Bank
The Dead Tree on South Road
A few years after he wrote this, Charles Brewster was a resident of South Cemetery too
A Fragile Little Bird and a Giant Iron Steamship
An 1882 ad for the SS Taurus to Seacoast NH
A Brush with the Shaggs
A vintage chat with Dot Wiggin of the Seacoast-based sister band that reinvented music
Portsmouth Staged “No Kings” Play in 1778 Despite Theater Ban
Poet Jonathan Mitchel Sewall compared Roman Senator Cato to Washington
Marketing a Jewish-owned Victorian Five-and-Dime
Alkon’s Tea Shop advertised with colorful Victorian trade cards
General John Sullivan Honored as NH Mason
Often taken to task for his war record, legal actions and personality, John Mason remains a beloved Masonic figure
Gen. John Sullivan, a Contentious Hero
We built a bridge in his name and then we tore it down
A Simpler, Cheaper Halloween in 1932
Before giant human skeletons sold at Home Depot
Three US Naval Heroes Inside a Vacuum Tube
Jones, Perry, and Farragut all had ties to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.