Nora Perry and Portsmouth’s Other “Lady Wentworth”
A second seacoast New Hampshire marriage scandal in an 1875 poem
The Return of the Comet Zipper
What memories are locked inside a model airplane kit?
Miss Nancy Underhill Swept Off Star Island in 1848?
Suicide, accident, or a massive rogue wave? Write your own ending.
The Piano Prodigy and the Blind Soprano
Gladys Fogg and Milo Benedict taught music in Portsmouth
Is This Really Lady Wentworth?
Martha Hilton Wentworth Wentworth was her name
Longfellow’s “Lady Wentworth” of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
May-December romance or cringeworthy scandal?
In My Father’s Wallet
Two dollars in cash and two precious discoveries
Mary Bartlett and the American Revolution
Her doctor husband signed the Declaration from NH in this essay by Olive Tardiff
The Saga of the “Jenny Lind” Figurehead
Was it really attached to a Portsmouth-built clipper ship?
The First Romance of Admiral Dewey
A rarely seen 1899 interview about Susan Goodwin of Portsmouth, NH
Naval Hero George Dewey Loved Susan Goodwin of Portsmouth
They married at the governor’s mansion, but she died young
Land-locked: Celia Thaxter’s First Published Poem
Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell was impressed