My Hero, James T. Fields
Kind and funny guy, a great writer, inspired editor, and publisher too
Kelp: A Lively 1888 Novel With a Terrible Title
An Isles of Shoals adventure by a Kittery-born writer
The Candidates at the Fair
Sam Walter Foss tackles local politicans again
Childhood Memories of the Appledore Island Hotel, Part 2
Native basket sellers, the organ grinder’s monkey, blackface music, a lost bear, board games, and life along the piazza.
Fifty Years in a Printing Office
Charles Brewster sums up his quiet historic life in Portsmouth, NH
Was Henry Shute the Mark Twain of Exeter?
He was a judge by day and a children's author by night, recalling his misspent youth.
Land-locked: Celia Thaxter’s First Published Poem
Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell was impressed
A Timeline: The Life of Celia Laighton Thaxter
Biographer Norma Mandel creates a chronology
Two Inland Noodles at the Sea
"The Farmer and the Ocean" by Will Carleton returns
Extremely Rare Diary of a New Hampshire Girl
California woman recalls early days goring up in NH seacoast in the mid-1800s
Inside “The Nation’s Oldest Newspaper”
Steve Fowle fights the power with his NH Gazette
Famous Men Hung Out with Kittery Carver
John Haley Bellamy’s man cave drew artists, authors, actors, and more to Pepperrell Cove