HISTORY MATTERS

Like his cousin the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Frost, historian Joe Frost of Kittery and Eliot, Maine was a crusty Yankee curmudgeon. Joe was still a young man when his famous relative Robert died in 1963, but he remembered him well.  Joe was himself growing elderly when he spoke about his cousin to a group gathered at the Portsmouth Athenaeum on a rainy evening in 1997.  (Continued below)

HISTORY MATTERS

A few years ago an online auction bidder paid $504.00 for a single, tattered copy of the New Hampshire Gazette. Dated February 10, 1775, the paper was certainly printed by an enslaved African called Primus, or Prime – a man who never tasted freedom. (Continued below)

HISTORY MATTERS  

Now and then Mother Nature forces us to slow down. She sends her hyper active children to their rooms for a much-needed “time-out.” She shuts down businesses, blocks roads, and closes schools. She blankets the region in a few feet of frozen white crystals. We are snow-bound.  (Continued below)

HISTORY MATTERS

Josie Prescott is in the news again and just the mention of her name is like a warm summer breeze in winter. Her family created Prescott Park in the 1930s. Her trust fund helped pay for badly needed Prescott Park renovations in 1985. A quarter century later the hugely popular riverside park and arts festival are planning a half million dollar facelift. (Continued below)