Strange Halloween Characters from Seacoast History
Make Halloween a teachable moment for your kids with historically accurate costumes
A Simpler, Cheaper Halloween in 1932
Before giant human skeletons sold at Home Depot
The Return of the Comet Zipper
What memories are locked inside a model airplane kit?
In My Father’s Wallet
Two dollars in cash and two precious discoveries
My Hero, James T. Fields
Kind and funny guy, a great writer, inspired editor, and publisher too
Kelp: A Lively 1888 Novel With a Terrible Title
An Isles of Shoals adventure by a Kittery-born writer
Childhood Memories of the Appledore Island Hotel, Part 2
Native basket sellers, the organ grinder’s monkey, blackface music, a lost bear, board games, and life along the piazza.
Childhood Memories of the Appledore Island Hotel, Part 1
Thomas Laighton’s granddaughter recalls the end of an era
Being a Boy in New Castle in 1887
An 11-year-old remembers one day at a cottage in New Castle, NH.
Was Henry Shute the Mark Twain of Exeter?
He was a judge by day and a children's author by night, recalling his misspent youth.
The Superman of Puddle Dock
The good old days before urban renewal
Extremely Rare Diary of a New Hampshire Girl
California woman recalls early days goring up in NH seacoast in the mid-1800s