Sally Wood was First Maine Novelist
Did Dan Brown borrow her Illuminati novel idea?
Two Monuments Honor the Man Who Named New England
Dueling John Smith Monuments on Star Island and Rye Harbor in 2014
The Unexpected Portsmouth Art Gallery
No admission, open year-round, and the art is all around you
Miss Nancy Underhill Swept Off Star Island in 1848?
Suicide, accident, or a massive rogue wave? Write your own ending.
Kittery’s Little Red Schoolhouse on Life Support
Move it, sell it, restore it, or lose it.
Saving the Old State Street Store
Historian Karen Bouffard restores the wooden Drown family store in 2025
Which Bartlett is Bartlett Street?
Research is all about WHO you know and WhAT they know
“Weight of Water” Film Bombed, But is Still Worth Watching
The 1873 Smuttynose murders were too complex for the novel or film
With Apologies to Kittery
Much of the history Portsmouth, NH claims really belongs to Maine
William Dean Howells Loved Kittery Point
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."--WDH
Who Was William Whipple?
He was in the right room at the right time, one of three NH :signers"
Still Untangling the Prince Whipple Legend
The black man in the boat is not Prince Whipple, although symbolically, he is.