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Read Our Mail -- November 2004
A complete archive of mail from November 2004
http://www.seacoastnh.com/read-our-mail-november-2004/
September 2007 Newsletter
NOTES FROM AMERICA'S SMALLEST SEACOAST (SM) SeacoastNH.com Update September / October 2007
http://www.seacoastnh.com/september-2007-newsletter/
Lafayette was the First American Idol
FAMOUS PEOPLE Almost 50 years after the American Revolution, a French nobleman toured the entire United States. Greeted everywhere by cheering crowds, Lafayetee embodied the soul of the new America, and in September 1824, he rocked the house in...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/lafayette-was-the-first-american-idol/
A Portsmouth Cinderella Story?
SeacoastNH.com Presents Historic Portsmouth #414 A nice buzz of response to my Monday’Herald feature on George Washington in Portsmouth reminded me of this photo. I took it back in the 1990s after moving the ancient shoe to a window at the Portsmouth...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/a-portsmouth-cinderella-story/
The Second Love of Annie Fields
SEACOAST POETRY She was married to one of Portsmouth’s most famous men of letters. Together they linked the arts scene of our Seacoast with the Boston literati and the English poets and writers. But when James T. Fields died, Annie found what some...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/the-second-love-of-annie-fields/
Sarah Orne Jewett of Maine
SEACOAST LITERARY LIONS She is quite possibly the finest writer the Piscataqua region has produced. Thousands of readers are discovering the life and work of Sarah Orne Jewett today and her home in South Berwick, Maine has been preserved just as it was...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/sarah-orne-jewett-of-maine/
A Ticket to Pleasure Island
Seacoast Blog #72 November 18, 2009 I serve as a late night spy for the Portsmouth Athenaeum. I’m on the Special Collections committee, although I don’t believe I’ve ever attended a meeting. I do my work from home. Well after midnight, when I have...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/a-ticket-to-pleasure-island/
Bad Boy Book Genre Born in NH
STORY OF A BAD BOY Tom Bailey was a well known hell-raiser and American literary hero even before Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Yet "The Story of a Bad Boy" has never been dramatized – until now. Learn why the "bad boy" genre was born in post Civil War...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/bad-boy-book-genre-born-in-nh/
Slavery and the Portsmouth Church
NH BLACK HISTORY Much of colonial New Hampshire revolved around the church. The status of Portsmouth citizens was defined by their wealth and position in the church community. In her unique study historian Valerie Cunningham examines the role of...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/slavery-and-the-portsmouth-church/
Untangling the Prince Whipple Legend
NH BLACK HISTORY Prince Whipple was among 180 New Hampshire blacks who fought in the Revolutionary War. But was he at Valley Forge with George Washington? Historians now think not. So then why is the Internet filled with stories saying that he was?...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/untangling-the-prince-whipple-legend/
Whittier’s Anti-Slavery Ode to NH
NH BLACK HISTORY In 1846 young poet and activist JG Whittier called NH "one brave state" for its stand on the Abolition issue. But was New Hampshire brave? Or was this Yankee state, in many ways, as confused and caught up in the slavery movement as its...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/whittiers-anti-slavery-ode-to-nh/
Yellow Fever in 1798
BREWSTER’S RAMBLES #118 A hundred Portsmouth residents died in just two months time as the plague moved from the North End to downtown. So many were dead that relatives who were not sick had to carry them away by night. The stink of death was...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/yellow-fever-in-1798/
Smallpox Parties on Pest Island
BREWSTER’S RAMBLES #131 We tend to think of the sexual revolution as something that happened in the Roaring Twenties or the Swinging Sixties. But the Revolutionary War? In his most ribald ramble ever, Brewster talks suggests what might have happened...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/smallpox-parties-on-pest-island/
Hamilton House
HISTORIC HOUSES South Berwick, ME It stands majestically on a hill by a river, one of New England’s most picturesque homes. It is also a superb example of Colonial Revival restoration, thanks to work begun by a "rusticating" Boston family. Today...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/hamilton-house/
Ford’s Theatre and Museum
THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION Years ago we made a pilgrimage from New Hampshire to Washington, DC to see the place where Lincoln died. Every American should make this journey. Here is our journal of the visit with digital snapshots.
http://www.seacoastnh.com/fords-theatre-and-museum/
City Seeks Firefighter Statue
MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS Besides two Civil War memorials, Portsmouth goes without life-size sculpted figures. Now the city wants to honor firefighters with a sculpture budgeted at $75,000 so far. Here’s the info and lots of links to our fire-history...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/city-seeks-firefighter-statue/
Four American History Myths Busted in Portsmouth
DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH Throw away those old schoolbooks. Your history teacher got it wrong. From Columbus to Plymouth Rock, US history is peppered with false notions. Historic Portsmouth, NH offers a salty alternative to the standard stories. With scores...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/four-american-history-myths-busted-in-portsmouth/
Murder Testimony of Maren Hontvet
SMUTTYNOSE MURDERS Maren Hontvet barely survived the attack on Smuttynose Island in March 1873. The other two women on the island were killed. Maren’s testimony sent Louis Wagner to the gallows. More than a century later her text formed the heart of a...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/murder-testimony-of-maren-hontvet/
I Met the Smuttynose Murderer
1873 SMUTTYNOSE MURDER When John Downs (1870 –1945) was a baby he was held in the arms of Louis Wagner who become the infamous Smuttynose murderer in 1873. Downs later lived into the Honvet House on the island. The last of the true Shoalers, Downs...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/i-met-the-smuttynose-murderer/
The Beast of Smuttynose
SMUTTYNOSE MURDERS We’re always on the lookout for more views of the famous shoals murders. This August 1964 pulp account illustrates why you just can’t trust those cheesy detective magazines for facts. Long before Americans got a steady diet of lurid...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/the-beast-of-smuttynose/

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