Nora Perry and Portsmouth’s Other “Lady Wentworth”
A second seacoast New Hampshire marriage scandal in an 1875 poem
Longfellow’s “Lady Wentworth” of Portsmouth, New Hampshire
May-December romance or cringeworthy scandal?
Sing Along with Frank Jones Brewery Song
Rare printed campaign lyrics claim that Jones Ale drives away all pain
The Candidates at the Fair
Sam Walter Foss tackles local politicans again
Eccentric “Pilgrim Stranger” Preached to Congress
Seacoast's Harriet Livermore dreamed of a day when women would be "clothed in the sun, and walk on the moon."
“A Tryst” by Celia Thaxter
Her poem foreshadowed a Titanic-like disaster
Land-locked: Celia Thaxter’s First Published Poem
Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell was impressed
Launching the First USS New Hampshire in 1864
It had lain in mothballs for 50 years before the Civil War created a supply crisis
Two Inland Noodles at the Sea
"The Farmer and the Ocean" by Will Carleton returns
The Two Loves of Annie Fields
The Boston marriage of "Widow" Fields
Hopelessness Springs Eternal for Maud Muller
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!"
Poet Robert Dunn Tackles Immortality
Portsmouth's "Penny Poet" cashes out