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2025

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JANUARY
Gilley's of Portsmouth and more beloved Seacoast diners of past and present
By Sherry Wood

2024

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DECEMBER
Remember the Newington Mall? It came years before Fox Run Mall and The Crossings
By Sherry Wood
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NOVEMBER
Slam Dunk for Soda Pop League
By Sherry Wood
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OCTOBER
Artist of the Piscataqua
By Sherry Wood
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SEPTEMBER
Ice Pond Quarry touched by tragedy
By James Smith
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AUGUST
Irish coachman's ties to vanished Portsmouth estate explored
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
Meet the collector behind Portsmouth Athenaeum's NH primary exhibit
By Sherry Wood
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JUNE
When Portsmouth had an African School for Black students
By James Smith
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
Meet the moms of Portsmouth's past
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
The 1936 fire destroyed that piece of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard history
By James Smith
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
Socialite’s scrapbooks showcase Portsmouth’s upper crust
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
In New Hampshire, all politics is personal
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
The Pines: When Portsmouth enjoyed a winter sports hotspot a century ago
By Sherry Wood

2023

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DECEMBER
Opening night 1964 at Theatre By The Sea: How a Portsmouth theater was born.
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
NOVEMBER
Ingenuity, hand tools create a breathtaking space
By Dick Adams
AT THE ATHENÆUM
OCTOBER
1823 Portsmouth partygoers signed their names with pride
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
SEPTEMBER
Magic at Theatre by the Sea
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
AUGUST
Portsmouth's historic archives in need of a home. Here's what is being done about it.
By Tom Hardiman
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
'Peace, Love & Portsmouth' documents how city changed in 1970s
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JUNE
How Portsmouth's first Market Square Day in 1978 came together like a 'miracle'
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
Gravestone leads to 1968 Portsmouth tragedy: 'There wasn't a chance to save those kids'
By Roland Goodbody
AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
The rise and fall of NH's first first family at Portsmouth Athenaeum
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
The Acres: Where everyone in Portsmouth started out
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
When Portsmouth mourned President Abraham Lincoln
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
Puddle Dock's Sherm Pridham says, 'I never thought of myself as poor' as kid in Portsmouth
By Sherry Wood

2022

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DECEMBER
Portsmouth's Blue Strawbery chef James Haller follows his bliss at 86
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
NOVEMBER
5 women who broke new ground at the Portsmouth Athenaeum
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
OCTOBER
Portsmouth South End stalwart Harold Whitehouse: 'I've got memories like crazy'
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
SEPTEMBER
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard worker's diaries cover 50 years on Seacoast up to 1907
By Robin Silva
AT THE ATHENÆUM
AUGUST
When FDR visited Portsmouth and Naval Shipyard. 1932 visit to city documented in recent photo donation
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
Life on the water inspired Kittery Point painter George Wasson
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JUNE
Peirce Island Pool took a while to make a splash
By James Smith
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
Standing Together exhibit shines light on NH LGBTQ+ activism
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
How one of Portsmouth's first Chinese immigrant families survived and thrived on Seacoast
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
Homing in: Grad student's sleuthing shines light on local homes mid-century
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
'Let 'em come, we're ready': When air raid wardens walked Portsmouth's streets
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
'Honesty and soul': J.J. Newberry, Portsmouth's 5 & Dime store, closed 30 years ago

By Sherry Wood

2021

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DECEMBER
A snapshot in time from the Portsmouth Press

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
NOVEMBER
A family treasure 'The Story of Zephyr' now belongs to the Athenæum

By Tom Hardiman

AT THE ATHENÆUM
OCTOBER
Tracing the trail of the enslaved to Portsmouth

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
SEPTEMBER
Yes, Portsmouth, there was beer in the church basement

By Katy Sternberger

AT THE ATHENÆUM
AUGUST
The man who led Japan in negotiating the Portsmouth Peace Treaty

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
Portsmouth's Georgian gardens bloom again at new exhibit

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
JUNE
Building I-95 bridge took blood, sweat and tears

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
Planting Seeds of History: The Portsmouth Subsistence Gardens in the Great Depression

By James Smith

Firewall

AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
Hold, please: When Portsmouth's phone dialing changed 65 years ago

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
When history hits home

By Sherry Wood

AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
That's Amore: Italian weddings in Portsmouth's North End, preserving the history

By Sherry Wood

Firewall

AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
Garland Patch kept the Athenaeum going in its darkest days

By Sherry Wood

2020

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DECEMBER
Portsmouth's first female mayor never gave up
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
NOVEMBER
Portsmouth's 'Thoreau' was known as a rare bird, even in his time
By Sherry Wood
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OCTOBER
Each image is a time machine
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
SEPTEMBER
Message from lost Maine colony found in attic

By Tom Hardiman

AT THE ATHENÆUM
AUGUST
City of the open door is the city of constant change
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
’Clansman’ book’s brief tenure revealed
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JUNE
Captain recounts capture by Confederate pirates
By Susan Kindstedt
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
N.H. warriors helped win women’s battle for the vote
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
How Portsmouth faced its first pandemic
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
Homing in: Grad student's sleuthing shines light on local homes mid-century
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
A century of pressing the flesh
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
Class Act: Take a peek at Portsmouth's old school records
By Sherry Wood

2019

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DECEMBER
Volunteering for history's sake: Transcribe-a-thon attracts history lovers from all over the Seacoast
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
NOVEMBER
Portsmouth knows how to eat, drink and be merry: Long before Fall Restaurant Week, city has had a long-standing industry
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
OCTOBER
A look back at Shattuck Shipyard: Newington shipyard employed 8,000 at the height of World War I
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
SEPTEMBER
Lifting their voices: Valerie Cunningham makes sure the 'invisible and forgotten' are part of history
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
AUGUST
A century at the beach: Time-traveling through the Athenaeum's digital archives
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
Rolling out the barrel for four centuries of Portsmouth brewing
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JUNE
Hidden history found in Press Room attic
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
Leaps of faith: How the city went from The Dunking Society to Hitting The Decks
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
Like James Bond, Fisher family dodged many bullets
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
Scripting the Seacoast series begins March 20
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
By George: 'The Many Faces of George Washington' may surprise you
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
Putting Portsmouth on the map
By Sherry Wood

2018

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DECEMBER
Portsmouth's Athenaeum is a community of readers, writers
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
NOVEMBER
100 years ago, the 'war to end all wars' ended
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
OCTOBER
Passion at the polls always ran deep
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
SEPTEMBER
Portsmouth family's story of struggle lives on
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
AUGUST
Portsmouth neighborhood goes back to school at Athenaeum
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JULY
More than 20 Portsmouth portraits on exhibit
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JUNE
More proof Portsmouth is a party town
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MAY
James H. Head knew how to think big
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
APRIL
Celia Thaxter lives on in poetry, pottery
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
MARCH
Hawthorne's library card is anything but boring
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
FEBRUARY
'Sailor's Valentine' tells story of Portsmouth's maritime past
By Sherry Wood
AT THE ATHENÆUM
JANUARY
NH got the better of Massachusetts in this deal
By Sherry Wood