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This 1890s-era photo is rich with detail about the Portsmouth Plains brick schoolhouse, first opened on January 3, 1846. Three teachers stand at the back by blackboards and a porcelain sink beneath a portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Continued below)
Walls can talk, but few of us speak their language. Architectural historians interpret clues left by joists, joints, lathes, plaster, saw cuts and timber frames – and tell amazing stories. Researchers discovered, for example, that this nondescript Puddle Dock apartment house (top) was among the oldest surviving structures in town.
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South Berwick residents are nervous. The village so familiar to poet Sarah Orne Jewett is slowly changing. Today it looks much as the 19th century poet saw it, but progress is knocking at the door. This new brochure offers a one-hour reminder of the historic charm that makes this town unique.
Lottie McLaughlin was volunteer "hostess" of the restored Chase House when it opened at Strawbery Banke in 1965. Controversy erupted among museum founders when the curator noted that these items on display had to be removed (Continued below)
Words don't do justice to the Smuttynose skies. Nor does our digital camera. But we gave it a try and the results follow. Overnight visitors to the Isles of Shoals quickly understand why 19th century tourists came to see this spot just off the NH and Maine coastline as a magical location. See pix below.
Founded in 1958, opened in 1965, Strawbery Banke Museum was born into an American cultural revolution. By the 1970s, views of American history were changing as rapidly as shifting attitudes toward fashion, music and civil rights. Museum officials had to find new ways to talk about the past to a new generation of visitors. (Continued below).
James Haller was an out of work television writer when he came to Portsmouth via Chicago and New York City in 1969. Today renowned as an author and master chef, Haller scraped together $2,700 to outfit the basement of a battered warehouse across from the tugboats on Ceres Street in 1970. (Continued below)
This is among the most exciting accounts in the two volumes of the Rambles, but not written by the author himself. An 1840s-reader of the Portsmouth Journal recalls the chaos of the 1813 fire, its aftermath and a heroic rescue.
A chip off the old block-and-tackle, Stephen Decatur IV of Kittery had big shoes to fill. Born in 1886, his Piscataqua roots went back to 1750 and a Revolutionary War ancestor. One famous relative, Stephen Decatur Jr., was a hero in the War of 1812 and died in a duel with another naval officer. (Continued below)
Sea Dogs: Celebrating 15 Years May 13, 2008 PORTLAND -- Charlie Eshbach, President/General Manager, Portland Sea Dogs, will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Sea Dogs with the publication of a new history of the team, “The Portland Sea Dogs: Images of Baseball.” FREE
LIVESTRONG Day May 13, 2008 EXETER -- Wear yellow. Honor and support people affected by cancer in our community. Enjoy a new exhibition of art by cancer survivors. Learn about the Lance Armstrong Foundation's programs to unite people to fight cancer, and meet a member of the LAF s...
Be a Herbal Apprentice Course May 14, 2008 CANTERBURY -- Fee: $175, members $160
Drive away the winter blues by delving into herbology. This course provides hands on experiences, making tinctures, soaps and herbal salts, for example, to connect you with the early spring. We will also concentrat...
American Independence Museum's Opening Day May 14, 2008 The American Independence Museum opens for the season in Historic Exeter, New Hampshire. Museum hours are 10am to 4pm, with the last tours at 3:30pm.
Veggie Teens and Raw Food May 14, 2008 EXETER -- Raise Your Vibe Wednesdays at Blue Moon. Blue Moon Natural Foods, 8 Clifford Street, Exeter, sees this spring as an opportunity to explore what each of us can do to make healthful choices for people and the planet. Some of these solutions com...
Writer Louise Erdrich May 14, 2008 PORTSMOUTH -- One of the most gifted, prolific and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists, Award-winning novelist Louise Erdrich will be a part of our Writers on a New England Stage series on May 14. Her new original novel The Plague of D...
Lighthouse Buffet Dinner May 16, 2008 The main event this evening will be the American Lighthouse Foundation's first “Lighthouse Trivia Challenge.” This will be a Jeopardy-style competition, complete with buzzers and sound effects. The winners of the early games will compete in a final roun...
Meteors, Meteorites and Comets May 16, 2008 CONCORD -- Planetarium Educator Bob Veilleux will explain why you can collect meteorites - but not meteors or comets. Learn about these fascinating solar system interlopers, where they come from, how you can see them, and how they are related. See and...
Mother Courage May 16 - 17, 2008 Our mainstage season wraps up in May with the Senior Youth Repertory Company production of Bertolt Brecht’s epic masterpiece Mother Courage and Her Children. Through Brecht’s stark vision, the play relentlessly questions the distinctions between war, bu...
Books & Blooms Sale May 17, 2008 BRENTWOOD -- Our Annual Books & Blooms Sale is scheduled for Saturday, May 17th from 9 - 11:30 am! Come to the Mary Bartlett Library, 22 Dalton Road in Brentwood, to purchase lots of books for little money - and purchase great plants at great prices. Pl...
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ISLES OF SHOALS
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