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 LIVING WITH THE PAST Award-winning historian J. Dennis Robinson rambles on about local history in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and beyond. Timely, personal and behind-the-scenes commentary posted often. To reply to any of these topics or suggest new ones please use our
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Written by Maryellen Burke
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 Seacoast History Blog #50
June 6, 2009
Today Pete Robie put the final touches on our new kitchen. The renovation would have taken just a month, except for a tiny two-inch spacer that added a week to the project. My wife, Maryellen is over the moon. She has been wanting to do this since we moved into our historic Atlantic Heights house a decade ago. Only one thing made us sad. To rebuild the kitchen counters, we had to destroy a “secret hiding place” created by a former owner. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #49
June 3, 2009
The other day, while lecturing in Brentwood, I must have mentioned that I was working on a book about the War of 1812. In my talk, I also referenced the Daniel Webster House in Portsmouth. After the talk, during the cake and conversation period, Albert Edward Belanger, introduced himself. Assembling all those random details like a man-made molecule, he said – “Did you know that Daniel Webster kicked off his political career by giving a speech about the War of 1812 right here in Brentwood?” I did not know that. So when I went home, I looked it up. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #48
May 28, 2009
The Discover Portsmouth Center is opening for its second year. It is a phenomenal feat. One of Portsmouth’s sturdiest and most useful old brick buildings is now – at least for the moment – being put to the highest possible use. It is the city’s first and only visitor’s center, with a special emphasis on tuning people, newcomers and natives alike, into the historical and cultural highlights of the city. Not everybody gets it yet. And a lot more think that, if the center is open, it must be here forever. But the new DPC, the brainchild of Prof. Richard Candee, is on a trial run only, loaned by the city to the Portsmouth Historical Society in hopes that they can make a go of it. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #47
May 17, 2009
For a decade or two I’ve been droning on about how Smuttynose Island is one of the prime archeological treasures of the Northeast. I didn’t know what I was talking about, of course. I’m not an archeologist. But it just stands to reason, based on the history of the former Church Island as a 17th century fishing outpost and it’s largely unspoiled and uninhabited condition today. The Shoals are often referenced as a stopping point for visitors traveling the Eastern coastline in the 1600s. Last week Prof. Nathan Hamilton of the University of Southern Maine said pretty much the same thing at a meeting of the Smuttynose Stewards in Rye. Hamilton and his students did a test pit last summer and will continue their work in 2009. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #46
May 5, 2009
Everywhere you go, the saying goes, there you are. But it's different for me. No matter where I travel, I seem to stay enmeshed in Seacoast, NH. Take this week when we are, technically, at Cape Cod. I'm shipping this blog in from Falmouth, MA where a family member is recovering from a severe battle with pneumonia. Checking Gmail, I find a letter from a reader who lives on a mountain top somewhere in California. Checking the phone machine back home, he has been calling about a painting he bought at yard sale. He thinks it shows the battle of the Bonhomme Richard. That would be John Paul Jones, and JPJ, like Portsmouth, follows me wherever I go. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #45
April 28, 2009
It’s official. The New York Times web site has released the list of the 2009 Most Endangered buildings in the country published annually by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, DC. And we’re on it. And it it’s still early in the morning and the newspapers haven’t come out yet, consider this a scoop. Bridge advocates will rally at noon today and then comes the hard slogging work of trying to get our beloved 1923 lift bridge OFF the list. That means convincing the powers at the DOT that their money is best spent restoring an old bridge instead of building a new one. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #44
April 22, 2009
After months of research I’m finally knocking off the first words in a new book on privateering. You won’t see it for a year or two, but the War of 1812 now occupies about 65% of my conscious brain. Like many, I was pretty clueless about this big chunk of American history that some scholars call "the forgotten war". Now I see why. Nobody won. America could easily have avoided the whole conflict. Little was accomplished. And except for some major sea encounters and the Battle of New Orleans, we often got our butt kicked. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #43
April 18, 2009
Forty years after the death of Barney Hill, I finally heard him speak. He was hypnotized, his voice halting and breathy, but masculine and clear. He was talking about his close encounter with aliens in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He sounded fearful and confused, struggling to believe his own eyes as he re-imagined that fateful night in the fall of 1961. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #42
April 7, 2009
You can find the strangest things in the Portsmouth Herald. Carol White did. While researching the genealogy of people in New Castle, she began digging into the life of Captain Charles E. Becker. When Becker died in 1926 at age 94 he was reportedly the oldest citizen of New Castle. His detailed obituary in the newspaper includes one very curious phrase, and thanks to Carol’s email, I’ve been Googling all afternoon. (Continued below)
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Written by J. Dennis Robinson
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Seacoast History Blog #41
March 28, 2009
Joanne from Pennsylvania called the other day. She has a photo taken by LV Newell of Portsmouth, NH. That’s not rare. We’ve posted scores of them on this site (see Historic Portsmouth section). But Joanne’s photo was taken when Newell was at Point Lookout in MD. He set up shop shooting portraits of Union guards and Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. But his historic collection was later destroyed. (Story continued below with pix)
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