SEACOAST DISASTERS

The holiday was hell in 1802, 1806 and 1813. Three devastating fires raged through the center of Portsmouth during December. Only by telling these stories again to generations can we keep our collective memory alive.

HISTORY MATTERS

Sometimes you have to turn a legend upside down to find the truth. A Noca Scotia historian traces the legend of a York Maine Indian back to its roots and offers a refreshing new theory on a dramatic series of events. Is the mysterious St Aspinquid actually "Abinquid"? 

HISTORY MATTERS 

A memorial can have meaning even if the person it honors never existed. But now is the ideal time to abandon the fictional "praying Indian" of Agamenticus, and replace him with a real hero. If it were not for the pacifist Passaconaway, there might be no New England at all (Detailed story below)

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MORE TURKEYGATE

The first New Hampshire settler sold fish to the first Pilgrims at Plymouth. It’s a story we’ve been plugging for decades – but is anyone listening? Either way, we’re going to tell it one more time. Here comes the classic Turkeygate satire with 21^st century updates. (Continued)