Saving the Old State Street Store
Historian Karen Bouffard restores the wooden Drown family store in 2025
Which Bartlett is Bartlett Street?
Research is all about WHO you know and WhAT they know
“Weight of Water” Film Bombed, But is Still Worth Watching
The 1873 Smuttynose murders were too complex for the novel or film
William Dean Howells Loved Kittery Point
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."--WDH
Still Untangling the Prince Whipple Legend
The black man in the boat is not Prince Whipple, although symbolically, he is.
Workers Strike at Portsmouth Shipyard
Did shipyard workers have any rights at all in 1854?
York Indian Legend Has Canadian Origin?
Sometimes a myth turns out to be a fact
Governor John Wentworth Lost Three Mansions
He was driven from homes in Portsmouth and Wolfeboro, NH and Halifax Nova Scotia
Red Lights on Water Street
It is a familiar chapter in cities across the nation at the dawn of the 20th century
The UFO Incident at Exeter High
My students interviewed Normam Muscarello about UFOS in 1980
Lafayette was the First American Idol
Lafayette's return in 1824 and again in 2024 drew cheering crowds
The World’s Best Clam Chowder Recipe
If it comes in a can and you didn't follow this recipe, it ain't clam chowder