A Serviceman Returns to Portsmouth
A visitor recalls decades of trips to the Old Town by the Sea
The Mountains of Portsmouth?
The text is surprisingly accurate for 1847, but oh, that illustration!
Zoffoli Motors Super-88 Model with Rocket Engine
Drive this baby right off the lot for $2,000
Visit Portsmouth in Your 1955 Ford
“Portsmouth is a proud town,” Eleanor Early wrote, “full of descendants and an occasional ghost.”
Celia Thaxter Worshipped Nature
Her real church was her garden and the natural world
Edith Perry Estes Comes to Town
A well-known Boston writer for children was an activist for the New England Women's Press Club
Forgetting the Atlantic Corporation
The company died, but the cozy brick neighborhood it spawned lives on.
The Smiths and the Strawbery Guild
Museum founders initially feared the rich would profit from Portsmouth's historic sites.
Hillary Clinton Spotted at Yoken’s in 1992
Critical moments in the Bill Clinton presidential campaign played out in the Granite State
Tanker Crashes at Pease AFB in 1964
The plane took off at 2:26 pm at a speed of 130 mph and rose only a few hundred feet
Portland Burned, Portsmouth Spared in 1775
Captain Mowat torched 400 buildings and left 1,000 homeless
Alexander Graham Bell In New Castle
"Mr. Albee, come quick. I need you."