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
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.
Hamilton Smith, We Hardly Knew Ye
Turns out he's a real person, not just a building at UNH
Portsmouth Lyceum was TEDx of the 1800s
Between the church and the theater was the educational Lyceum Movement
Hall Jackson was a Revolutionary First Responder
“Hardly any other medical name in New Hampshire stands out brighter than that of Hall Jackson,” according to an online medical encyclopedia,
History Detectives Solve Photo Mystery
Amid a pandemic, trapped indoors, a virtual team of historians tracks a one-of-a-kind theater cast image found on eBay
The Mysterious Old Statehouse Balcony
Did George Washington once stand on this old balcony? Probably note.
Portsmouth Brothel Owners Go for a Ride
A unique image of the city's early sex traffickers posing in a Victorian photo studio.