The Devil and Jonathan Moulton
A heroic and successful life tainted by poetry and popular opinion
Land-locked: Celia Thaxter’s First Published Poem
Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell was impressed
A Timeline: The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
Biographer Norma Mandel creates a chronology
Blood Science on Trial in 1873
Fish or human corpuscles? The Smuttynose murder was early CSI
Old Man of the Mountain Nearly Sank the USS Raleigh
A tiny seacoast, but a powerful history
Is This Portsmouth’s Other Ale Tycoon?
In Search of Captain Eldredge and his Brewery
Launching the First USS New Hampshire in 1864
It had lain in mothballs for 50 years before the Civil War created a supply crisis
Who Lies Under NH’s Tallest Tombstone?
Rev. Tucke was everything to the impoverished people of the Shoals and profited well in return
A Brief Guide to Sea Serpents
They seem to show up during tourist season
The Bold Plan to Turn Portsmouth into a National Park
Two Kittery Point men pitched a“Maritime Village” project n in 1936
How Portsmouth Attracted Tall Ships in the 80s
In 1980, Portsmouth discovered that attracting tall ships required money.
Dorothy Vaughan: The Woman Who Saved Portsmouth
She spent a lifetime breathing new life into the city she loved