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What About the Indians?
PORTSMOUTH NH HISTORY With few facts to flesh out their story, Native Americans have become largely invisible in early NH history. They appear largely in stories about Indian raids on white settlements at the turn of the 18 th century. But a much...
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Barney Hill Speaks from the Grave
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...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/barney-hill-speaks-from-the-grave/
April 2005
NOTES FROM AMERICA'S SMALLEST SEACOAST (SM) SeacoastNH.com Update April Feature LUCY HALE LOVES JOHN WILKES BOOTH Our all time favorite history article is back! This year marks the 140 th anniversary of the Lincoln tragedy. But if you think you know...
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Who Really Ran the Underground Railroad?
NH BLACK HISTORY Does the train to freedom tell the wrong tale about slavery? Popular tales of kindly white homeowners protecting anonymous blacks on the run does not tell the full story. History tells us that only about one percent of the four million...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/who-really-ran-the-underground-railroad/
Songs for a New World at Players Ring
MARK YOUR CALENDAR Patrick Dorow Productions (PDP) in partnership with The Players’ Ring presents the musical hit Songs for a New World. The show runs January 23 , 2015 through F ebruary 8 2015 with performances onFridays at 8pm , Saturdays at 3 pm and...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/songs-for-a-new-world-at-players-ring/
The Other Lady Wentworth
SEACOAST POETRY Longfellow made one Lady Wentworth famous. She was the very young housekeeper of the very old governor of New Hampshire before the Revolution. But there was a second lovely governor's lady. Her name was Frances, and her poor husband was...
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How John Paul Became John Paul Jones
HISTORY MATTERS Some topics are born into trouble. You'll see what I mean in a moment. This week, for example, I got a letter from a reader in North Carolina who upbraided me for daring to suggest that the Portsmouth Powder Alarm of 1774 was the first...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/how-john-paul-became-john-paul-jones/
American Memory
SITE OF THE WEEK It just gets better and better. More of American history is finding its way online and a lot of that info is coming from the Library of Congress. What might have taken weeks to research can now be found in seconds -- with more being...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/american-memory/
Shipwreck on the Shoals
SEACOAST POETRY Two 19 th century poets tell the story of the same shipwreck at the Isles of Shoals. Celia Thaxter’s poem appears to purposely provide a female answer to the masculine tragedy by James Kennard. Here side-by-side for the first time, they...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/shipwreck-on-the-shoals/
Letters December 2007
ASK, RANT OR PRAISE, BUT NEVER IGNORE This is the heart of our web site, the place where readers reign. So many of the best ideas come from you. ANd more, we need you to tell your friends to sign up. That's how we measure our success and draw in our...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/letters-december-2007/
Sam Walter Foss was NH Poet Laureate for the Common Man
Sam Walter Foss penned his first verses at Portsmouth High School here in NH. He went on to gain popular fame for his comic and philosophic writing. His poem "The House by the Side of the Road" was among the best loved in the nation. His fame has...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/sam-walter-foss-was-nh-poet-laureate-for-the-common-man/
This Desired Place
SEACOAST BOOKS New Hampshire poet and author has produced a second novel set at the Isles of Shoals. Set in the 17 th century, the story leapfrogs from one dramatic Seacoast setting to the next during the founding years of colonial New England.
http://www.seacoastnh.com/this-desired-place/
Slaves in the Warner House
NH BLACK HISTORY It was once studied largely as architecture. Now the historic brick Warner House in Portsmouth is home to tales of African Americans too. This overview offers just a glimpse of the lives, black and white, within these sturdy walls.This...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/slaves-in-the-warner-house/
An Interview with Writer Alice Boatwright
SEACOAST BOOKS We remember Alice Boatwright as co-editor (with Chip Noon) of the Seacoast literary magazine called PENUMBRA back in the 80s, and later as marketing manager for the Children’s Museum before it moved to Dover. An unstoppable author of...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/an-interview-with-writer-alice-boatwright/
Rhymes With Reason & Without
SEACOAST POETRY BP Shillaber was born in Portsmouth and went on to become one of the nation's most beloved writers in the guise of the comic Mrs. Partington. Here are bits from his first book of poetry -- An old printing press found in the basement...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/rhymes-with-reason-and-without/
Take Heart
SEACOAST POEMS Your side lost the election. The weather is getting cold. The wind is high. The flowers are gone and winter is heading your way with a vengeance. To those New Englanders hunkering down, we offer some comfort by NH poet Edna Dean Proctor....
http://www.seacoastnh.com/take-heart/
The Importance of Ranger
JOHN PAUL JONES in Portsmouth With no surviving plans or sketches, the Portsmouth-built warship RANGER, like its captain John Paul Jones, remains intriguingly mysterious. Although often missed in textbooks, the RANGER played a large role in the small...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/the-importance-of-ranger/
Wentworth by the Sea Stories
ENDANGERED HOTEL SAVED! For the last 20 years the once-grand 1874 Wentworth Hotel languished by the sea in New Caslte, NH. Now the renovated hotel is back. It's surprisingly 130-history is the source of this web site and our new book -- Wentworth by...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/wentworth-by-the-sea-stories/
Going Crazy in Portsmouth
GREEN ACRE ON THE PISCATAQUA She founded the oldest Bah’I school in America. It thrives today in Eliot, Maine on the Piscataqua River. Was Sarah Farmer mentally ill or a religious visionary in exultation?
http://www.seacoastnh.com/going-crazy-in-portsmouth/
A Quick History of the Isles of Shoals
400 YEAR CAPSULE Few islands in New England have been so fully frozen in time. Privately owned, lovingly maintained, each island has its own legends and history. This quick overview Is for first-timers who have yet to discover one of the earliest...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/a-quick-history-of-the-isles-of-shoals/

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