Celia Thaxter Worshipped Nature
Her real church was her garden and the natural world
Edith Perry Estes Comes to Town
A well-known Boston writer for children was an activist for the New England Women's Press Club
Evangelist George Whitefield Comes to Portsmouth
America's first celebrity saved Seacoast souls
A Tale of Two Port Cities
Sister cities Portsmouth and Newburyport look similar but live worlds apart.
Hollis Broderick Captures Fort William and Mary
The auction price kept climbing, but the antiquarian held his ground.
Portsmouth Rewrote Its Past in a Tavern in 1652
Was this a despicable act or a clever plan that saved Portsmouth from outside forces?
Forgetting the Atlantic Corporation
The company died, but the cozy brick neighborhood it spawned lives on.
The Smiths and the Strawbery Guild
Museum founders initially feared the rich would profit from Portsmouth's historic sites.
Hillary Clinton Spotted at Yoken’s in 1992
Critical moments in the Bill Clinton presidential campaign played out in the Granite State
The Shameful Fame of Blackface Entertainment
NH not immune from what Frederick Douglass called "the filthy scum of white society"
Tanker Crashes at Pease AFB in 1964
The plane took off at 2:26 pm at a speed of 130 mph and rose only a few hundred feet
Gullzilla: Attack of the Killer Seagull
For one brief shining moment, I was king of the island.