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MARITIME HISTORY
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FAMOUS PEOPLE
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich Tobias Lear Framers of Freedom
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PLACES & EVENTS
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				The Grave Site Isles of Shoals Wentworth by the Sea
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Experts Say Exhibit Not Reconstruction is Best Use of First NH State House

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The 1758 colonial State House that once stood in the middle of Portsmouth’s Market Square should not be reconstructed from its surviving bits and pieces now stored in a trailer in Concord. At least, that is not the “best use” of the artifacts according to a seven-year $250,000 study by the NH Division of Historic Resources. (Continued below)

New Ways to See the Old Portsmouth Seaport

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Portsmouth has earned bragging rights for preserving a large number of historic sites. If you know another little city of 20,000 souls with more nonprofit house museums, let me know and I’ll move there. Now the Old Port is angling for a record number of ways to visit its heritage spots. (Continued below)

What We are Learning about the Isles of Shoals

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Consider yourself warned. My exhibit “Under the Isles of Shoals” closes forever on August 31 at Discover Portsmouth. The good news is that Cornell University has asked to move the displays and artifacts to its museum for a run in Ithaca, New York. I truly hope you will bring the family – kids especially – before we dismantle this important exhibit and ship it out of town. Why important? Let me count the ways. (Continued below)

Facing Up to Facebook

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Kicking and screaming. I just joined Facebook. Last week I was one of us. Today I am one of them. I got “friended” 200 times in the first five days. It was exhausting. I have been assimilated, and my life will never be the same. (Continued below)

Edward Warren Clark was Magic Lantern Man

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Although he was born in Portsmouth in 1849, Edward Warren Clark was a thoroughly modern man. He was an entrepreneur, a photographer, and a globetrotter with a taste for high-tech equipment and media attention. “Professor Clark,” as he liked to be called, held a lifelong passion for the people and culture of Japan. He became well known for his illustrated lectures on Asian culture using a “magic lantern,” the Victorian equivalent of a slide or video projector.(Full feature below)

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