John Albee: Confessions of a New Castle Historian
Albee's obscure memoir, "Confessions of Boyhood," is now among my favorite books.
A Hasty History of Prescott Park
My brief overview created for the Prescott Park Arts Festival
Did NH Founders Bank on a Backchannel to the Great Lakes?
Historian Charles Deane suggests Portsmouth investors hope to do an end-run around French fur traders at the Great Lakes.
Maude Trefethen: 51 Years in First Grade
She never met a child she didn't like
Four Centuries of Disappearing Cod
Shrinking fish size and shrinking fish stocks from the arrival of European fishers
The Portsmouth Plot to Annex New Castle
New Castle rebuffs offer to be absorbed by its big sister
Murder at the Home of NH’s Founder
As New Hampshire was being founded, its founder, John Mason, hosted a murder in Portsmouth, England
Exhibition Illuminates Edmund C. Tarbell’s Legacy
Bringing the seacoast's premiere painter back to life
Rickover Reacts to USS Thresher Tragedy in 1963
Controversial admiral visits Portsmouth after 129 perish in nuclear submarine
John Elwyn: Portsmouth’s Eccentric Scholar
What to do with your life when you don't have to do anything
Remembering “Aunt Rozzie” Thaxter
Celia Thaxter's granddaughter enjoyed a life of privilege, travel, friends, and philanthropy.
Portsmouth versus Portsmouth
A city can be its own worst enemy and its own best freind