How the Coolidge Family of Boston Saved Wentworth Mansion
Wealthy and privileged, but artistic and preservationist.
The Only True Pirate Tale from the Isles of Shoals
JOHN QUELCH: "They should take care how they brought money into New England to be hanged for it."
Poet Foss Spoke for the Common Man
Not just a one-hit-wonder poet, but a gifted and comic poet
Subversive “Infidel” Nathan Parker Founded Unitarian Church in NH
Here's why South Church ended up a block behind North Church in downtown Portsmouth
Waging Peace in the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth
A nail biting month of negotiations between Russia and Japan
The Lost WPA Murals of Gladys Brannigan
Are the four rolled canvas murals still out there? Check your attic.
Portsmouth Tries, Fails at Whaling
Unique research from "Heavy Weather and Hard Luck" by Kenneth Martin
Mark Twain Loved Thomas Bailey Aldrich but Hated His Wife and Portsmouth
Nobody, Twain mused in 1908, would visit a George Washington memorial if it were located in the decrepit town of Portsmouth
Myles Standish Speaks Out on Death of NH’s First Settler
Pilgrim enforcer breaks his silence on the disappearance of David Thompson in 1627
The Truth about Bricks and Mortar
Mason John Wastrom says we may be hurting the buildings we're trying to save
The Perils of Privateer Andrew Sherburne
He went from supporting to whole family to rotting in an English prison camp
The Agony and the Ecstasy of James Kennard Jr
"Yet we have never known a happier person," Rev. Peabody wrote