SEACOAST BOOKS

As many as 100 authors have taken on the complex life of John Paul Jones, many in books written for young readers. Here is one more. But we’re pleased to report that this new "library edition" for middle-schoolers is not your father’s history text. Although well-researched and well-written, this bio is fun to read, filled with pictures and up to date.

SEACOAST NH FILM
Produced by Louise de Rochemont

OUR COMPLETE PLOT SUMMARY

This film abour race in a small NH town shocked audeinces in 1949 and was banned in some states. Crude as it may be, it opened doors to other filmsabout black America. Shot laregely in the Seacoast and premiered in Portsmouth, Lost Boundaries is summarized here for the first time online.

PHOTO GALLERY

In any weather in any season, you’ll find Harry Lichman outdoors. Neither sleet, nor wind nor biting insects can keep him from his chosen work – landscape photography. Included here are a dozen dramatic scenes of the Seacoast in its most dramatic lighting.

SEACOAST POETRY

Today the Old North Church spire is the most recognizeable image in the city. It links the seacoast to its past, to a time when Washington and Daniel Webster attended services here in Market Square. It is also falling down and in immediate need of costly repair. In this poem, written after the Civil War, historian Brewster remembers when the old weathervane came down. He lets the steeple tell its own story.

SEACOAST POEMS
Devils, witches, babies & moms

What's better than one devil baby? Two devil babies, of course. Two New England poets were haunted by this tale of an infant possessed by Satan. Or was it the work of Hampton witch Goody Cole? Or maybe the mother herself was insane. Or perhpas -- it was just a normal screaming baby and a very exhausted mom. You be the judjge.

SEACOAST POETRY

It is not a long poem. It is not an accurate poem. But in New Hampshire, where our history of civil rights is far from stellar, we’ll take all the praise we can get. In 1846 New Hampshire elected the first openly Abolitionist senator John P, Hale of Dover, and sent him to Washington. John Greenleaf Whittier saw NH as leading the way to the abolition of slavery. NH didn’t. Here is the poem.

SEACOAST GALLERY

Like its NH neighbor, the town of Newbury was settled in the early 1600s and evolved into a successful seaport before the Revolution. Fires and stagnant trade followed, but the port rebounded through shipbuilding, manufacturing and now – tourism. Click for a colorful array of images from some of the region’s top shutterbugs.

SEACOAST POETRY

ATTENTION ALL WIDOWERS: Before marrying your second wife, make sure your first is not hiding under the bed. General Jonathan Moulton learned that lesson the hard way. Pretty spooky stuff. Sure, it's just a legend. But the people of Hampton have long had their fun with General Moulton, whom they said, should never have made a deal with the devil.

SEACOAST BOOKS

He is a professor of Trunkology. When it comes to antique trunks, nobody knows more than Paul Pat Morse. Owner of the Trunk Shop in Barrington with his wife Linda, Pat is the author of three books on old trunks. We've included them here. As a bonus, Pat answers Frequently Asked Questions about -- you got it -- trunks.