Seacoast Quakers Tortured by Puritans
Puritans believed in religious freedom, but only for themselves.
Rye’s Underwater Petrified Forest
It reappears with the tide to remind us how things used to be
Do Not Open Until 2123
Six feet below the surface, a time capsule waits and waits and waits.
Just Wild About Hairy Ancestors
Male hairstyles from the Victorian era
Portsmouth Unplugged in 2017
A brief reminder of how everyone on the planet used to live
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.