School days with Ike Partington, a Roguish Little Fellow
Being bad and being a boy is at the core of Portsmouth's literary tradition
Readers React to Rickover Report
The ghost of Admiral Rickover still radiates here amid the fallout of the USS Thresher disaster.
Rickover Reacts to USS Thresher Tragedy in 1963
Controversial admiral visits Portsmouth after 129 perish in nuclear submarine
Sorry, Not the Prescott Sisters
When you spend too much time in the past, you think you begin to see dead people.
Being a Boy in New Castle in 1887
An 11-year-old remembers one day at Wentworth by the Sea.
John Elwyn: Portsmouth’s Eccentric Scholar
What to do with your life when you don't have to do anything
Remembering “Aunt Rozzie” Thaxter
Celia Thaxter's granddaughter enjoyed a life of privilege, travel, friends, and philanthropy.
Portsmouth versus Portsmouth
A city can be its own worst enemy and its own best freind
USS Albacore Journal: May 15, 1985
They tore open the road and a railroad bridge to land a submarine
Getting Prince Whipple Right
He is every African-American who continues to fight in the battle for equality that rages on and on with no end in sight.
A Scrapbook of Lost Children
Unnamed, unclaimed, and all grown up, their photos haunt online auctions
David’s Trunk Shop on Ceres Street
Some people are born characters. They are the ones that make life memorable.