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Both were once pilots. Both are middle-aged white men today. Both "stay the course". But when it comes to politics, Mike Dater and George Bush are poles apart. Readers of the NH Gazette are familiar with Dater’s biting political satire. Now all that left-wing angst has been freeze-dried into a single volume. It’s Doonesbury on steroids. If Jonthan Swift could draw (and didn’t die 250 years ago) he would happily be Mike Dater.

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The way things have been going lately, we could all use a book of smiles. Well, here it is. Poet Fred Samuels and columnist Joann Snow Duncanson have teamed up to produce "Breakfast in the Bathrub". If you’ve had enough of nasty weather, political strife and bird flu, or if you happen to be President of the United States – this book’s for you. Click for special excerpts from the book.

SEACOAST GALLERY

Many readers never notice that the image at the top of this web site changes weekly. Most pictures are shot locally and, over time, they pile up. Here are two dozen of them, slightly reduced in size. Some come straight from the digital cam, others have been fiddled with in PhotoShop. New header images submitted by photographers are always welcomed as long as they are long, flat and thin. 

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What better way to welcome October than with a new book about gravestones? Portsmouth’s Arcardia Publishing, among the fastest growing publishers in the world, has released a new photo volume focused on the city’s historic cemeteries. These tombs are endangered and the more we learn about them, the better they can be preserved.

THE LEGEND THAT NEVER DIES

America loves its villains. And no villain has stolen more celluloid than the outlaw Jesse James. Although his story has never been truly told on film, Hollywood just can’t stay away from the legend. This time around Brad Pitt will play James. And even as the film is being shot, the author is digging into the truth behind the myth.

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The first edition of this children’s novel sold out. A second self-published edition is now in print. To honor that occassion we asked author Pat Wall to tell us what she has learned about writing, lecturing, publishing and marketing. Also included is out original interview on the release of her book about an enslaved girl growing up in an 18^th century New Hampshire seaport.

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The latest in the Arcadia "Images of the Past" series takes on the quiet Maine community that stretches along the Piscataqua River border with New Hampshire. These are pictures – 200 in all – that few have seen and have never been collected in published form.

SEACOAST POETRY

You don't have to be perfect to be loved. In fact, you can be downright deterioirated if you are the only grocery store open late into the evening downtown. When Richardson's Market closed in 2000, a lot of hardcore townies mourned its passing. Now a newer better store has taken its place, but the memory lives on -- in verse.

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A Portsmouth sailor saves a baby. Click for the whole story.

Swift up the burning stairs,
With daring feet he flew;
While sable clouds of stifling smoke
Concealed him from the view.

SEACOAST FILM

Filmmaker Gary Anderson rescued this historic footage from a dumpster outside the University of New Hampshire media center. He expanded the found footage into a half-hour documentary. Edited in the midst of the campus riots of the very early 70s, Mayflowers captures the spirit of the student protests from the inside out.