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How the Governor Lost Three Mansions Print Email

Gov House, Halifax/ Canadaian National Archives

THE WENTWORTH DYNASTY

He had the common touch, at least as a young man. But from Portsmouth to Wolfeboro to Halifax, New Hampshire’s last royal governor had ritzy tastes in real estate. Here, for the first time that we know of, is a look at all three governor’s mansions and the racy Portsmouth couple that lived there.

 

 

 
The Prescott Sisters Kick Butt Print Email

The Prescott Sisters / Portsmouth Athenaeum

HOW PRESCOTT PARK WAS BORN

This is the story of two elderly ex-teachers who knocked down four city blocks. They turned a former "combat zone" and immigrant neighborhood into a family garden park. But first they had to win a legal battle that made them millionaires. All this happened  while the rest of America struggled through the Great Depression.

 

 

 
The Deadly Summer of 1912 Print Email

Murder in 1912
FOUR DEAD MARINES DISCOVERED

The South End of New Hampshire’s only seaport was in "a state of siege". In just 10 days in August of 1912 four marines were found dead in the region. Residents were angry. President Taft was on his way. When the smoke cleared, the police marshal was out and the city’s flesh trade was shut down. Reform was in the air, and Portsmouth’s water front would never be the same.

 

 
The Incident at Exeter High Print Email

Beyond the Incident at Exeter/ Art by SeacoastNH.com

NH UFO EXLCUSIVE

Forty year ago, Norman Muscarello saw something weird above a field near Exeter, NH. Fifteen years later he talked about that day to a group of high school journalists. Norman is gone now, but his 15 minutes of fame will never die. Read the exclusive story here and no where else.

 

 

 
The Day Max Fell Print Email

Untitled portrait by Max Maynard / Winchester Galleries, Victoria, BC

IN THE SHADOW OF SUCCESS

Brilliant and hard-drinking UNH literature professor Max Maynard never achieved the fame he craved. His daughter Joyce, however, landed on the cover of the New York Times Magazine at age 18. In 1973, as one family career shot skyward, the other fell like a stone.

 

 

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