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Isles of Shoals

Sheep on the Shoals

by J. Dennis Robinson

it didn't work for Thomas Laighton and it didn't work for us

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The 1892 Siege of Cedar Island

by J. Dennis Robinson

Shoaler news ripped from the pages of the Boston Globe

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Who Lies Under NH’s Tallest Tombstone?

by J. Dennis Robinson

REv Tuck Tucke was everything to the impoverished people of the Shoals, and enslaved to servants.

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Three Beebe Girls Buried at the Isles of Shoals

by J. Dennis Robinson

"I don't want to die," Mitty Beebe told her father.

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Why John Smith Never Came Back to New England

by J. Dennis Robinson

If three times you don't succeed -- give up and write another book

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The Only True Pirate Tale from the Isles of Shoals

by J. Dennis Robinson

JOHN QUELCH: "They should take care how they brought money into New England to be hanged for it."

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Victorian Bicycles on the Water

by J. Dennis Robinson

Major David Urch and his aquacyclists pedal on the Piscataqua River

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Thomas Laighton was “Lord of the Isles” in 1860

by J. Dennis Robinson

A rare poetic peek at the enigmatic Thomas Laighton

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Uncle Oscar Rides the Waves Again

by J. Dennis Robinson

Like mother, like son

Read moreUncle Oscar Rides the Waves Again

The Brief Life of the First Fated Oceanic Hotel

by J. Dennis Robinson

John Poor destroyed the town of Gosport to build a luxury hotel that burned

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Appledore Guest Artist: Hassam & Hunt

by Vintage Pics

One thrived on the Sholas, one died there.

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Science and Celia Thaxter’s Island Garden

by J. Dennis Robinson

Science and art meet at the Isles of Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore

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