Smuttynose Murderer Captured Twice
A rare Victorian stereograph card freezes a moment in crime
A Few Words from Dorothy Vaughan
Almost no one in town cared about history in the 1930s and '40s, Vaughan said
Let’s Meet at the Y in 1905
Where historic events come together
Famous Appledore Guests Named Bull and Booth
Victorian superstars hang out at Celia Thaxter's island salon
Readers Respond With Walter Brooks Pix
Every picture tells a story, but a caption helps
Coloring Frank Jones’ Massive Estate
Nothing exceeds like Excess
Tom Thumb Wedding Still Inspires Mock Marriages
Costumed children exchange vows in creepy fundraisers
Baptismal Font Honors Scottish Hero
My retirement fantasy has long been to tour the world in the wake of Revolutionary War Captain John Paul Jones. I picked up this obsession in the late 1990s when I moved my writing office to the carriage house nestled within the wooden gardens of the John Paul Jones House Museum in downtown …
A Dozen Elephants March in Market Square
Terrible, unkind, absurd, but I wish I'd been there
Rethinking the Miss Underhill Legend
Rogue wave or a despondent lover?
Two Tragic Muskie Moments
There was the Canuck letter and then there was me
Thomas Jefferson Caricature has Portsmouth Connection
Presidents have always had to endure harsh criticism from comedians