Alemaker Frank Jones: Hero or Heel?
Despite great wealth, he did little for the common people.
Two Tragic Muskie Moments
There was the Canuck letter and then there was me
Nixon Visits in his “Wilderness Years”
Celery sticks and no fur coats at Wentworth by the Sea in 1964
Mayor Dondero as a Young Woman
Portsmouth's first female mayor was the mother of the city's longest-serving mayor.
Fascinated by Harriet Livermore
Writer, evangelist, traveler, activist, and much more.
Tightening City Laws in 1860
No more swine pens or privies on the mill pond!
Rocky Takes Another Punch in 1964
Nelson Rockefeller stumps in Seacoast New Hampshire
Picturing John Henry Bartlett
Author, teacher, lawyer, cinema mogul, governor
A Big Bridge and a Little Girl in 1923
Eileen Dondero Foley dedicated a bridge in 1923 and again in 1998
Marshal Entwistle Refused to Resign
“I need the money and I need the position,” the chief told the newspaper.
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 …
New Castle Breaks Up With Portsmouth in 1693
The 1893 bicentennial reminds us that New Castle was the original heart of colonial New Hampshire