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Kittery Little Red Schoolhouse on Life Support Print Email

Students at Safford School courtesy Portsmouth AthenaeumHISTORY MATTERS

"I thought of moving it to John Paul Jones' Park, and maybe have a little seasonal visitor center," says Jeffrey Thomson. The chairman of Kittery's Town Council is once again brainstorming ideas for the forgotten old one-room SaffordSchool. Now that the town owns the small oval-shaped park at the entrance to the new MemorialBridge, his idea seems almost feasible. (Click title to read more) 

 
 
The Man Who Dug Up John Paul Jones Print Email

Horace Porter in Civil War by Matthew Brady on SeacoastNHHISTORY MATTERS

110 years ago, deep in a forgotten Paris cemetery, Gen. Horace Porter came face-to-face with the corpse of a lost naval hero. The full story is dramatically and accurately told in a new book entitled The Admiral and the Ambassador. (click title to read more)

 
 
Miss Nancy Underhill Swept Off Star Island in 1848 Print Email

Man standing on Cliff at Star IslandHISTORY MATTERS

We'll never know exactly what happened to 34-year old teacher Miss Nancy Underhill on Star Island at the Isles of Shoals in September 1848. But a closer look at the facts of this legend, like others, may offer added clues. (Click title to read more) 
 
US WWII Ambassador John Winant Gets His Memorial at Last Print Email

NH Gov. John G. Winant01HISTORY MATTERS

 

He was a teacher, a fighter pilot, and the hugely popular ambassador to Britain in World War II. More than any individual, according to England's King George VI, he forged the alliance between the United States and Britain that led to an Allied victory against Hitler's Nazi aggression. Both Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt trusted him implicitly. (Click title to read more)
 
The Unexpected Portsmouth Art Gallery Print Email

library ceramic dragonHISTORY MATTERS

 

Hidden in plain sight, a fascinating collection of paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and photographs are on display at the Portsmouth Public Library. (click title ro read more)
 

More Articles...

  1. Inside the Wondrous Woodman Museum
  2. My Favorite Portsmouth History Books for Kids
  3. The Truth about Bricks and Mortar
  4. Understanding the Portsmouth African Burying Ground
  5. Saving the Old State Street Store
  6. George Orwell Taught Me to Write History
  7. New Monument for the Man Who Named New England
  8. Painting the First Picture of Portsmouth
  9. Tallest Tombstone in New Hampshire is 100 Years Old
  10. Portsmouth Builds Rare HMS America in 1749
  11. Unloved President Franklin Pierce Had Seacoast Connections
  12. Those Dangerous Daily Newspapers
  13. When Old Ironsides Was Ours
  14. Five Reasons to Skate at Puddle Dock Portsmouth
  15. Heavenly Days at the Hellish Portsmouth Naval Prison
  16. The Lost Interview with Dorothy Vaughan
  17. Tough Times for Tough Portsmouth Mayors
  18. Alemaker Frank Jones was Hero and Heel
  19. Repairing Sir Peter Warren
  20. The Brief Life of the First Oceanic Hotel
  21. Portsmouth 1814 Brick Act was Unpopular Law
  22. How Massachusetts Almost Ate New Hampshire
  23. 1847 Letter
  24. An 1847 Message from Hog Island
  25. Unraveling the 1694 Murder of Ursula Cutt
  26. The Day the Piscataqua River Exploded
  27. Gettysburg Concordance App Brings Battle to Life
  28. The Flags of John Paul Jones
  29. Rower Retraces Smuttynose Murder Route
  30. Reflecting on a Painted Wall
  31. The Fickle Fate of Tobias Lear
  32. Portsmouth and Dover Still Feuding Over 1623 NH Founding Date
  33. How Portsmouth Partied in 1923
  34. NH Governor Driven Out of Three Mansions
  35. New Book Will Fully Explore 1873 Smuttynose Island Ax Murders
  36. Black Heroes and Heroines of Portsmouth
  37. How John Paul Became John Paul Jones
  38. My First 50 Years With Computers
  39. Horrific Boon Island Wreck Has Portsmouth Link
  40. Reviving the Portsmouth Powder Alarm 1774
  41. Finding the First House in New Hampshire
  42. Atlantic Heights WWI Shipbuilder Neighborhood Story Told in Book
  43. Why I Hate Fake Pirates
  44. Predicting the Future of Kittery and Portsmouth
  45. Presidents Who Visited Portsmouth
  46. Experts Say Exhibit Not Reconstruction is Best Use of First NH State House
  47. New Ways to See the Old Portsmouth Seaport
  48. What We are Learning about the Isles of Shoals
  49. Facing Up to Facebook
  50. Edward Warren Clark was Magic Lantern Man
  51. Newspapers and History are Siamese Twins
  52. The Second Death of John Greenleaf Whittier
  53. George Washington Slept Here in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
  54. Did NH Governor John Langdon Own Slaves?
  55. How We Created the Isles of Shoals Exhibit
  56. Why George Wasson is Worth Remembering
  57. Recycling Old Portsmouth Tree Tales
  58. Recalling Portsmouth in the War of 1812
  59. Rare Photo of NH Revolutionary War Vet Featured in New Books
  60. Federal Fire Society Adds to Its Bucket List
  61. Teaching an Old Library New Tricks
  62. Discovering the History of Discover Portsmouth
  63. Mitt Romney and Poetry, UFOs and Trash
  64. Thomas Morton Abandoned at Isles of Shoals
  65. What Scrooge and the Grinch Learned and Santa Forgot
  66. American Revolution Began in New Hampshire
  67. NH Rejects Aristotle Onassis Oil Refinery in 1974
  68. State of the First NH State House Revealed
  69. Demystifying Witchcraft in Portsmouth and Salem
  70. The Lost Jaffreys Come Home at Last
  71. Who Needs Another Gundalow?
  72. Portsmouth Herald Seeks Its Own Birth Date
  73. Why John Smith Failed to Colonize New England
  74. Secret Portwalk Dig Yields Buried Treasure
  75. Henry Tufts Wrote First American Criminal Autobiography
  76. Reformer Frederick Douglass Spoke in New Hampshire
  77. The Making of Portsmouth's Greatest Maritime Art Exhibit
  78. Three Beebe Girls Buried at Isles of Shoals
  79. The Last Battle of Fitz-John Porter
  80. Inside the USS Kearsage Monument
  81. How the Tall Ships Really Came to NH
  82. Andrew Peabody Preached Against War in 1847
  83. New England Takes Fort Louisbourg in 1745
  84. William Morris Hunt Dies Mysteriously at Isles of Shoals
  85. NH Jewish Community Deeply Rooted in Portsmouth
  86. First Religious Newspaper Born in NH
  87. Robert Frost According to Joe Frost
  88. Primus Fowle Ran First NH Press
  89. Snow-Bound Poem Made Whittier Wealthy
  90. Prescott Park Created by Millionaire Sisters
  91. Seacoast Teen Abducted to Brothel
  92. Writing about History in 2011
  93. The Lost Christmas Classic of Celia Thaxter
  94. What Does Piscataqua Mean?
  95. Myles Standish Speaks Out on NH's First Settler
  96. Poet Foss Spoke for the Common Man
  97. Mark Twain Loved Aldrich but Hated Portsmouth
  98. Creepy Characters from History
  99. The Unsung Columbus of New Hampshire
  100. Portsmouth Goes Whaling

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