Polishing Up the Button Factory
In 1987, the iconic West End arts community had a visionary new landlord
Meet Edward Stickney, the American Apollo
The greatest dumbbell lifter in the world, Stickney claimed
Roosevelt Used Paul Jones’ Body to Pitch His Great White Fleet
Only those who wanted a bigger Navy were fit to be in the room with Captain Jones, the president claimed
Finding the Body of Admiral Paul Jones in Paris
An accurate account reprinted from Scientific American following the discovery in 1905
Strange Halloween Characters from Seacoast History
Make Halloween a teachable moment for your kids with historically accurate costumes
When Portsmouth Changed Its Name
A New Hampshire town "accidentally" named Strawberry Bank
The Dead Tree on South Road
A few years after he wrote this, Charles Brewster was a resident of South Cemetery too
Portsmouth Staged “No Kings” Play in 1778 Despite Theater Ban
Poet Jonathan Mitchel Sewall compared Roman Senator Cato to Washington
General John Sullivan Honored as NH Mason
Often taken to task for his war record, legal actions and personality, John Mason remains a beloved Masonic figure
Gen. John Sullivan, a Contentious Hero
We built a bridge in his name and then we tore it down
Indigenous History is American History
Before Europeans, a local historian wrote, “the noble Piscataqua was unvisited and unknown.”
Nora Perry and Portsmouth’s Other “Lady Wentworth”
A second seacoast New Hampshire marriage scandal in an 1875 poem