Frederick Douglass Comes to Town Twice
A powerful figure for a troubled time
Snowshoe Shenanigans at UNH in ’63
10 years later, there was little fun to be had
Busting Seacoast Ghosts in 1872 and 1912
A light in Portsmouth's South End and
a "vapory" Newburyport boy
How Aristotle Came to Portsmouth
The spirit of public education blossomed in the American lyceum era.
Photo Day at One-Room Plains Schoolhouse
All in our places with bright shining faces
The Day Abbie Hoffman Smoked My Life
CAMPUS CHAOS May 5, 1970 When you stand too close to history, sometimes all you see is smoke. That’s how it was for many University of New Hampshire students the day after the Kent State shootings when American colleges were set to explode. In the middle of the chaos, three members of the …
School days with Ike Partington, a Roguish Little Fellow
Being bad and being a boy is at the core of Portsmouth's literary tradition
Hamilton Smith, We Hardly Knew Ye
Turns out he's a real person, not just a building at UNH
Portsmouth Lyceum was TEDx of the 1800s
Between the church and the theater was the educational Lyceum Movement