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Did Haddocks Settle Maine in 1610? Print Email

Haddock
GENEALOGY DEPT.
South Berwick Before Plymouth?

Family legends can be fun, but are often impossible to authenticate. Take this fishy tale about the Haddock Family. Some relatives swear that their ancestors arrived here 10 years before the Puritans. And they lived under a big rock in nearby coastal Maine.

 

 

 
The Revolutionary Eyes of George Fishley Print Email

George Fishley (c) Portsmouth Historical Society
HE SAW GEORGE WASHINGTON

Since SeacoastNH.com "broke" this story, George Fishley has been gaining in fame. He was recently featured in a major national history publication with other Revolutionary War veterans. This is story of one artifact discovered inside one local museum. Imagine how many more stories could be told, if we had your help.

 

 

 
Guilty Treasures Print Email

Historic Portsmouth houses / Wentworth-Gardener

HOW MANY HAVE YOU SEEN?

They are all around us. But how many historic houses have you actually been inside? You don't want them torn down. You like to look from a distance, but are you supporting them? are you visiting them? Use it or lose it. Don't feel guilty. Go.

 

 

 
The New Dying Words of John Wilkes Booth Print Email

John Wilkes Booth
NH's LINCOLN CONNECTION
April 1865

Behind the curtain of the Lincoln assassination is a strange New Hampshire love story. Lucy Hale, daughter of an abolitionist senator, was reportedly engaged to the man who killed President Lincoln. Whether it wasa real love or a manipulative game, no one knows. It was real, at least, from Lucy's view. But what it is was real from the other side too?

 

 

 
Rooming with the Love Generation Print Email

Pax UNH
PEACE, LOVE & OVERCROWDING
IN 1969

It was the season after the summer of love. The Beatles were breaking up. A man was walking on the moon. The author, in the middle of it all, was starting college.No comingling after 8 pm. No room at all for the Boomers, crammed into an overcrowded campus as the world was coming apart at the seams.


 

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