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
Nathaniel Hawthorne: 10-Days at the Isles of Shoals in 1852
Arguably, the most compelling word-picture of life at the Shoals as tourism challenged two centuries of fishing culture
An Introduction to Hawthorne on the Isles of Shoals
Craig Brown paves the way for the must-read 1852 journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sally Wood was First Maine Novelist
Did Dan Brown borrow her Illuminati novel idea?
Two Monuments Honor the Man Who Named New England
Dueling John Smith Monuments on Star Island and Rye Harbor in 2014
The Unexpected Portsmouth Art Gallery
No admission, open year-round, and the art is all around you
Miss Nancy Underhill Swept Off Star Island in 1848?
Suicide, accident, or a massive rogue wave? Write your own ending.
Kittery’s Little Red Schoolhouse on Life Support
Move it, sell it, restore it, or lose it.
Saving the Old State Street Store
Historian Karen Bouffard restores the wooden Drown family store in 2025