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"Dining with the Dead: Haunted Lighthouses of New England" on Saturday, April 30, 2011,  6 to 9 p.m. $39 per person. Captain and Patty's restaurant, 90 Pepperrell Road (Route 103), Kittery Point, Maine. (Details below) 

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One night Helen Goransson’s husband came home with two geese for the couple to raise on their Eliot farm. Goransson became upset because neither she nor Paul knew how to take care of geese. Both left the room and when they came she clams, an 800-page book was on the kitchen table, opened to a page with two paragraphs on how to raise geese. (Continued below) 

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Wowzer, it’s the real Bowzer. The world famous rocker with The Stingrays and Rocky & The Rollers shakes, rattles and rolls the house down with a rip-roaring Rock ‘n’ Roll Party at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, April 9 at 8:00 PM.  (Continued below)

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The hero goes off to war and those at home are left to pick up the pieces of their lives... a classic love story of passion and joy, grief and laughter.  But playwright Robert Macadaeg's evocative new script has a contemporary twist: the hero is Jimmy's wife. The play runs April 1-10, 2011 in the West End Studios.  (Continued below) 

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He doesn’t look like the photo any more, but he’s still on the comedy circuit. Comedian Jimmie “JJ” Walker – catch phrase “Dyn-o-mite” – will appear at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, March 19 at 8:00 PM and you can see the former TV-star right here in Seacoast, NH. (Continued below)

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On March 11-13 Pontine Theatre presents The Whale at their West End Studio Theatre located at 959 Islington Street in Portsmouth NH.  Rebecca Mead, writing for The New Yorker, says, “Carlo Adinolfi transforms the stage into both the sea-locked world of the Pequod’s decks and the vast, unfathomable sea itself.”  (Continued below) 

A new support group for authors, the Piscataqua Writers Group, is aimed at New Hampshire and southern Maine seacoast writers. Its first meeting will take place on Thursday, March 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the Seacoast African American Cultural Center, located within the Discover Portsmouth Center at 10 Middle St. in Portsmouth.  (Continued below) 

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A significant portion of Portsmouth was built by beer.  The Frank Jones Brewery, once the largest in America, sold 165,000 barrels of beer at its peak before the blighting hand of  Prohibition swept through the Seacoast and by 1950, there were no local breweries in operation. Now they’re back, baby. (See Events Schedule below)

To commemorate the extraordinary "Swim for the Lights" by Gary Sredzienski on February 26, 2011, the Lighthouse Guy is offering this special, limited edition "Swim for the Lights" 100% cotton t-shirt. The bold and colorful graphics show Gary's swim route on a map of the Portsmouth Harbor area. Help support the lighthouses by getting one of these nifty shirts and wearing it proudly. Quantities are limited -- get yours today. (Continued below)

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In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt chose Portsmouth, New Hampshire to be the site of negotiations between Russian and Japanese delegations to end the Russo-Japanese War (now known as “World War Zero”). On Sunday, March 6^th at 10:30 am, Temple Israel, 200 State Street in Portsmouth, presents “Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize and Portsmouth’s Jewish Community.” (Continued below)