William Dean Howells Loved Kittery Point
"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."--WDH
Governor John Wentworth Lost Three Mansions
He was driven from homes in Portsmouth and Wolfeboro, NH and Halifax Nova Scotia
Sarah Orne Jewett of Maine
A fine writing legeacy and fine Georgian home in South Berwick, ME
The Short Life of Old Portsmouth Armory
Coastal defenses historian Peter Payette details the life of Portsmouth armory (1916-2005)
Goodbye to Charles Bulfinch
The librarian could not let go of the Bulfinch legend.
Atlantic Heights was Architecture for the Poor
Like Portsmouth, no longer low-income, but still charming and neighborly
Portsmouth’s 1814 Brick Act Was an Unpopular Law
Even without the brick law, Portsmouth would likely look much as it does today
Unraveling the 1694 Murder of Ursula Cutt
What do two carved "putti" have to do with the murder of the wife of NH's first governor?
Teaching an Old Library New Tricks
Newington, NH, center looks much the same today, if you can find it.
Heavenly Days at the Hellish Portsmouth Naval Prison
Rod Watterson's "Whips to Walls" explored Portsmouth Naval Prison History
Poem: The Vane of the Old North Church
If weathervanes could talk by Charles Brewster
Why Portsmouth Went to Virginia in 1907
A copy of the Langdon Mansion went to Virginia in 1907--and stayed there.