How We Got Soldiers and Sailors Monument
The miraculous new “white bronze” turned out to be a poor investment.
I Crawled Inside the Crumbling Monument
It was a wreck waiting to happen when preservationists stepped up
The First Perilous Voyage of Privateer Lynx
The 80-ton, $3 million ship inched toward the Goose River Bridge, which had collapsed in 1946
Top 10 Seacoast Natural Disasters
Hard weather, pestilence, earthquake, lightning, fire, and more
The Only True Pirate Tale from the Isles of Shoals
JOHN QUELCH: "They should take care how they brought money into New England to be hanged for it."
Portsmouth Tries, Fails at Whaling
Unique research from "Heavy Weather and Hard Luck" by Kenneth Martin
The Perils of Privateer Andrew Sherburne
He went from supporting to whole family to rotting in an English prison camp
Save the Seal, Keep the Ship
NH Legislators should study up before trashing Seacoast history
Horrific Boon Island Tragedy Has Portsmouth Connection
A terrible wreck, stranded at sea, a legal scandal, and, oh yes, cannibalism
The Poem That Saved Old Ironsides
Oliver Wendell Holmes was only 21 when his little verse went viral
Famous Fake Bonhomme Flag Unfurled
Even Abraham Lincoln was fooled