Strange Halloween Characters from Seacoast History
Make Halloween a teachable moment for your kids
The First Perilous Voyage of Privateer Lynx
The 80-ton, $3 million ship inched toward the Goose River Bridge, which had collapsed in 1946
Short on Cash? Print Your Own
More on the "scrip" business by historian Kevin LaFond
How Harvard Helped Portsmouth and Vice Versa
The Wentworths were Harvard boys and they were just the beginning
Top 10 Seacoast Natural Disasters
Hard weather, pestilence, earthquake, lightning, fire, and more
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
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