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Isles of Shoals FAQ
QUICK ANSWERS We gathered a few of the most frequently asked questions that come from our readers. Here are the answers, short and sweet.If you have more questions after visiting our Shoals sections, please send them to info@seacosatnh.com
http://www.seacoastnh.com/isles-of-shoals-faq/
First Blacks of Portsmouth, Part 1
BEGINNINGS New Hampshire has an African heritage that datees back almost to the arrival of Europeans. Much of that history, begun in 1645, centers on the state's only port at Portsmouth. As many as 700 blacks were here by the Revolution, many caught up...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/first-blacks-of-portsmouth-part-1/
Red Lights on Water Street
SEACOAST NH HISTORY No, we're not talking about street lights. Not Christmas lights either. Always a popular town with visiting sailors, Portsmuth was especially known for its bordellos -- in their heyday from 1897 to 1912. Under police protection and...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/red-lights-on-water-street/
Creepy Characters from History
HISTORY MATTERS Once each year we working stiffs can parade through the streets of Portsmouth acting as insane and tasteless as a candidate running for re-election. That day is Halloween, formerly a holiday for children. But in recent years adults have...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/creepy-characters-from-history/
Collecting John Paul Jones
HISTORY MATTERS His image appears in hundreds of books, on calendars, posters, whiskey bottles and cigarette packs. His name is known around the world as the man who sailed into harm’s way in the American Revolution. But collecting "Jonesiana" tells us...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/collecting-john-paul-jones/
Visiting Plimoth Plantation
HISTORIC SEACOAST TOURS To them it is forever 1628. The actors may grow and change, but the original characters live on forever in the historic Plymouth recreation. One of the nation's best known outdoor museums does a better job every year of getting...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/visiting-plimoth-plantation/
Smuttynose the Comic Book
SMUTTYNOSE MURDERS It was inevitable. The chilling Smuttynose Murder story has been adapted into a novel, a film, a ballad, a ballet, a theatrical production, a pulp detective story and more. Now comes the comic book version, and so far, so good.
http://www.seacoastnh.com/smuttynose-the-comic-book/
Gift Recalls Shoals Murder
SMUTTYNOSE CLIP FILE The gift of a photograph in Maine stirred up this 1935 newspaper article decades after the 1873 murders. This footnote to history focuses on George Yeaton who successfully brough Louise Wagner to the gallows. (READ entire article...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/gift-recalls-shoals-murder/
Presidents on Bottle Tops
PRESIDENTS IN PORTSMOUTH Neaerly a dozen Chief Executives have visited Portsmouth, NH, but it's all been downhill since George Washington's visit. Here is a rundown of the top dogs who came to town and what they did -- or didn't do -- in Seacoast, New...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/presidents-on-bottle-tops/
Seacoast Poems of John Albee
SEACOAST POETRY Talk about obscure! Submitted for your approval, 10 history poems by the Massachusetts snowbird who also penned the history of New Caslte, NH. Due largely to his association with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harvard-educated John Albee moved...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/seacoast-poems-of-john-albee/
Whittier in New Hampshire
GRANITE STATE POETRY He lived just beyond the Massachusetts border, but John Greenleaf Whittier had the soul of a New Hampshire man. Like many Victorian poets JGW explored the White Mountains, the NH lakes and the rocky Isles of Shoals. Whittier was...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/whittier-in-new-hampshire/
William Dean Howells at Kittery
SEACOAST LITERARY LIONS Howells came to this region late in life in 1902, but his impact was significant. He wrote about the Isles, Portsmouth and Kittery for important publications and his family continued to influence preservation efforts in the...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/william-dean-howells-at-kittery/
Poet Esther Buffler
LITERARY LIONS To know her was to love her. She was Portsmouth’s first poet laureate and continued to write in her 90s. Broadway actress, mother, children’s author and queen of the arts in Portsmouth, Esther Buffler was a burst of positive energy. If...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/poet-esther-buffler/
ABC Quilts
SITE OF THE WEEK It is America's saddest epidemic -- thousands of babies born with AIDS and abandoned to the care of hospitals. When Dr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross challenged hospice volunteers to "do something" about the problem in 1988, two Northwood, NH...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/abc-quilts/
Black Heroes and Heroines of Portsmouth
HISTORY MATTERS As anyone who walks the streets of Portsmouth knows, this city has a rich and fascinating African American history. Over two dozen brass plaques tell us so. But don't go looking for much more detail in the three standard city histories....
http://www.seacoastnh.com/black-heroes-and-heroines-of-portsmouth/
George Washington in NH
WASHINGTON’S DIARY His visit lasted five days, a lengthy stay in his whistlestop tour of the new nation. George Washington left a few hundreds words in his diary about the trip that historians have been analyzing ever since. Now you can read his...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/george-washington-in-nh/
March 2008 Newsletter
NOTES FROM AMERICA'S SMALLEST SEACOAST (SM) SeacoastNH.com Update March / April 2008
http://www.seacoastnh.com/march-2008-newsletter/
February 2008 Newsletter
NOTES FROM AMERICA'S SMALLEST SEACOAST (SM) SeacoastNH.com Update February / March 2008
http://www.seacoastnh.com/february-2008-newsletter/
From Bordello to Antiques Shop
Strawbery Banke Presents HISTORIC PORTSMOUTH #183 After the closing of the Portsmouth "red light" district on Water Street, ex-bordello owner Charles "Cappy" Stewart shifted inventory. Rather than sell young women he profited from old houses and...
http://www.seacoastnh.com/from-bordello-to-antiques-shop/
October 2007 Newsletter
NOTES FROM AMERICA'S SMALLEST SEACOAST (SM) SeacoastNH.com Update October / November 2007
http://www.seacoastnh.com/october-2007-newsletter/

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