SeacoastHistory
Notes from America's Smallest Seacoast
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the new decade began, we had no clue what was coming. This article appeared in December 2019 as COVID lurked only a few months over the horizon. 400 years ago Portsmouth has a love-hate relationship with the arrival of the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620. This city likes to …
On Star Island, the Caswell family dominated the harsh fishing village in the 19th century. Hardworking and hard-drinking, they scraped out a living on the Isles of Shoals for generations. Then, in 1873, the Caswells and all the citizens of Gosport Village, NH disappeared./ From Thomas …
I happened to be among those passing the intersection of Chestnut and Court streets
Even local historians stare back blankly when asked about Estwick Evans.
Inside the mind of 12-year-old Celia Thaxter
Among the earliest examples of blood science, but wrong
The 2017 fire scarred the historic corner of State and Pleasant streets and almost took out my old aparemtn!
