“A Tryst” by Celia Thaxter
Her poem foreshadowed a Titanic-like disaster
Snow Fell All Summer Two Centuries Ago
President James Monroe faced the climate change crisis in 1816
Old Man of the Mountain Nearly Sank the USS Raleigh
A tiny seacoast, but a powerful history
Electrifying Portsmouth Sparks Fear in 1900
Is wiring our homes a bright or a deadly idea?
Historian Survives the Battle of San Diego Bay
Privateer Lynx and the Californian lock horns in mock combat
A Boy’s Dangerous Love Affair with Fireworks
A brief history of patriotism and gunpowder in the Port City
Reaction to the FB-111A Jet Crash Anniversary
Pease AFB workers recover the jet fighter that crashed in Portsmouth, NH in 1981
Cyclone Disaster at Navy Yard
A reader's letter sparks a burst of research
The Day the Shipyard Burned
Warships, the first submarine, even a balloon were built at Franklin Shiphouse
Frozen Facts, Fake or Real?
ICE BREAKING NEWS: February 11, 1918
Two Men Who Tore Down Portsmouth
Treadwell and Wentworth mansions lost to history.
I Saw the FB-111A Crash in Portsmouth
We asked Mark Chwalek to tell us what he saw in 1981 in his own words