Finding the Body of Admiral Paul Jones in Paris
An accurate account reprinted from Scientific American following the discovery in 1905
The Skeleton in My Closet was Real
For most families, the skeleton in the closet is a metaphor.
Hush-Hush Hidden Harbor History
A chamber pot found in a privy makes one wonder
A True Fan of the Aldrich House Museum
A souvenir of a memorial to a novel about bad boys in POrtsmouth
What Lies Beneath “New Portsmouth”?
A controversial North End hotel dig yields ground-breaking colonial history
Keys to Finding the First New Hampshire House
Despite new research, much of our early historians were wrong
How and Why We Buried a Time Capsule in 1998
Portsmouth 375th was a bland affair, but we did our best
The Coffins Under the Street
Did Portsmouth's "Negro Burying Ground"
fall victim to early commercial expansion?
Shards of the Past at Warner House Glass Exhibition
A lifetime of collecting donated to a Portsmouth house museum
Portsmouth Aqueduct Company Piped Water through Logs
Water flowed under city streets through hollowed out logs
Mystery Stone Fish and More Dud Topics
A few stories that never got off the ground
What Was Seacoast Life Like in the 1600s?
Inside a costly, carefully created exhibition (now a book) that dared to explain our complex past