Remembering Rock Rest in Kittery
Historian Valerie Cunningham recalls the summer venue for black travelers
Walking the Historic Streets of Portsmouth NH
Explore one of the nation's most walkable heritage destinations
Who Started Strawbery Banke Museum?
It was not a single speech at Rotary, but the effort of many ito launch the museum idea
Spencer Tracy Steers the Mayflower in 1952
Romance and a possible suicide aboard the Hollywood Mayflower in 1952
Why I Hate Fake Pirates
They evoke a spirit of the past that never happened and teach us nothing
Why Louis Wagner Was Definitely the Smuttynose Slayer
Long before writing the book, I was a missionary for fact over fiction.
What the Cushings Left Behind
Family treasures from before the disposable era
Remembering Daniel Webster in Portsmouth
His manner was "lofty and sour," but he had great influence and skill.
Travel Guide to Seacoast NH in 1899
word-for-word from your turn-of-the-20th-century guide to the NH Seacoast.
Declaration Copy Discovered in Exeter Attic
Written on request for SeacoastHistory.com By the American Independence Museum On the night of July 4 (into the wee hours of July 5th) a1776 Philadelphia printer, John Dunlap, printed approximately 200 copies of the Declaration of Independence. The broadside copies were couriered by horseback to …
I Saw the FB-111A Crash in Portsmouth
We asked Mark Chwalek to tell us what he saw in 1981 in his own words
Pierre Blanchard’s First Balloon Over NH in 1796
Historian James L. Garvin recaptures Portsmouth's first aerial phenomenon