MAN LOCKED IN BANK

When a normal helathy person gets locked in a bank, that's a funny story. But when a writer with a highly active mind gets locked in a bank, that's a metaphor, or an allegory, or something of huge literary significance. It all happened when the editor went to cash the very first income check for this web site at the dawn of the Internet.

OUR FIRST ONLINE COLUMN

Who could guess back in 1996 that we would still be online a decade later? Actually, we could. This regional site was built to last. SeacoastNH was born with an attitude and lots to say. Now with thousands of pages online and millions of readers later – we’re still standing. Here’s how it all started – back before Monica, Dubya, Iraq, Google and SPAM.

SEACOAST BLACK HISTORY

Born a slave, he became the most famous Black man in America and advisor to Abraham Lincoln. Even as the Civil War raged Frederick Douglass visited Portsmouth and lectured on the future of black Americans. His two sons were soldiers. And he remembered his first inhopistable visit to the Granite State too.

SPENCER TRACY PLAYED HIM

He is a troubling hero. Praised as America's first great national hero, Robert Rogers formed a crack militia to ward off Indian attacks. But he also fought against American patriots in the Revolution. Ouch! Love or hate him, Rogers has close connections to Portsmouth, NH. His wife hails from here. And a famous film about Rogers Rangers opens in Seacoast, New Hampshire.