A Few Words from Dorothy Vaughan
Almost no one in town cared about history in the 1930s and '40s, Vaughan said
The Happy & Useful Life of W.H.Y. Hackett
Searching for ways to do good in the world
Let’s Meet at the Y in 1905
Where historic events come together
William Morris Hunt Dies Mysteriously at Isles of Shoals
Depressed or too infirm to save himself?
Famous Appledore Guests Named Bull and Booth
Victorian superstars hang out at Celia Thaxter's island salon
Readers Respond With Walter Brooks Pix
Every picture tells a story, but a caption helps
Coloring Frank Jones’ Massive Estate
Nothing exceeds like Excess
Tom Thumb Wedding Still Inspires Mock Marriages
Costumed children exchange vows in creepy fundraisers
Baptismal Font Honors Scottish Hero
My retirement fantasy has long been to tour the world in the wake of Revolutionary War Captain John Paul Jones. I picked up this obsession in the late 1990s when I moved my writing office to the carriage house nestled within the wooden gardens of the John Paul Jones House Museum in downtown …
“Lewd Amusements” in Downtown Portsmouth
Theater gets a rocky start in 18th-century Portsmouth
On the Trail of Tom Thumb’s Carriage
How did Charles Stratton’s mini-coach end up at UNH?
A Dozen Elephants March in Market Square
Terrible, unkind, absurd, but I wish I'd been there