Sarah Purcell’s Mourning Ring
Her life went from Captain Purcell to Captain Jones
Shards of the Past at Warner House Glass Exhibition
A lifetime of collecting donated to a Portsmouth house museum
HMS America Built Here in 1749
Oldest known model of a British ship built in America
Baptismal Font Honors Scottish Hero
My retirement fantasy has long been to tour the world in the wake of Revolutionary War Captain John Paul Jones. I picked up this obsession in the late 1990s when I moved my writing office to the carriage house nestled within the wooden gardens of the John Paul Jones House Museum in downtown …
NH Artifacts Sold to Museums
Seeing inside one of our early mansions requires a road trip
Honoring History is a Moving Experience
What matters most--the building or the land it sat on?
John Langdon Finally Gets His Statue
Ignored for centuries, NH patriot gets cast in bronze in Philly
Digging Around in Paul Jones’ Cellar
Archaeologists give the Purcell House a careful checkup
Colonel John Walbach’s Strange Little Tower
Not tall and never used in a battle that never came
Pomp and Candace Spring’s House on Black Heritage Trail
A glimpse inside the home of a free African couple from New Hampshire
A Moving Memorial to Ensign Charles Hovey
The stripped-down memorial moved from the city center to a waterfront park
Do Not Open Until 2123
Six feet below the surface, a time capsule waits and waits and waits.