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Baptismal Font Honors Scottish Hero

by Vintage Pics

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 …

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A Dozen Elephants March in Market Square

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Terrible, unkind, absurd, but I wish I'd been there

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Rethinking the Miss Underhill Legend

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Rogue wave or a despondent lover?

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Two Tragic Muskie Moments

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There was the Canuck letter and then there was me

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Thomas Jefferson Caricature has Portsmouth Connection

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Presidents have always had to endure harsh criticism from comedians

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There Was a Real Portsmouth Sea Serpent

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Feeding the need for speed in the maritime industry

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Wow, People Do Remember Commander Vivian Brown

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Teacher, wartime instructor, and Navy Commander from Rye, NH

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Who Remembers Vivian Brown?

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11-Year-Old Girl Runs 25-Acre Rye, NH Farm on her Own

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Peace and Thanksgiving, then Flames in 1963

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A building best remembered for its role in the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth

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Nixon Visits in his “Wilderness Years”

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Celery sticks and no fur coats at Wentworth by the Sea in 1964

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Now Playing: The Troublesome Telephone in 1913

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A photo slips out o file and a day of research follows

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Snowshoe Shenanigans at UNH in ’63

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10 years later, there was little fun to be had

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