Postcards From Portsmouth

A celebration

Part VII: Walking through history

Part VI: Recovering Portsmouth history, the remarkable decades long journey of a teenage girl in search of herself

Part V: Free black life in 19th century Portsmouth

Part IV: "Return and Get It - Learn From the Past"

Part III: Fighting for freedom with the words of the founding fathers

Part II: Get to know some of the people behind the numbers

Part I: Slavery comes to Portsmouth

European colonization: a story of disease, displacement, conflict and survival

Thirteen thousand years of living in harmony with nature

Explore Portsmouth's colonial working waterfront and the everyday lives of the people who helped Portsmouth's elites make their fortunes

Walk with me through over 350 years of living Portsmouth history

Portsmouth's oldest home and one of the oldest remaining wooden houses in all of New England

Where a bad boy became a legend and where I fell in love with Portsmouth

Federal elegance, thirteen children, nine pets and the latest early 19th century technology

Washington's secretary: a story of remarkable achievement, loyal service, controversial decisions and tragic endings

Georgian perfection that almost ended up in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portsmouth's most famous founding father's mansion

Portsmouth's oldest brick mansion

Wealth, elegance and enslavement under one roof

The best real estate deal in Portsmouth's history, trace the story of this island in the middle of the Piscataqua River from fort to family fun

Portsmouth's quarantine station where you went to die or party, or both

Elegance, power and scandal on Little Harbor

Visit Lady Isle School and my grandfather's dog, Boy

A school based on faith and community

Portsmouth's gift to the world and our sacred trust

Portsmouth helps build a nation

Portsmouth commits to independence

Portsmouth and the Second Continental Congress

The raid on Fort William and Mary

Part 1: Portsmouth's growing resistance 1763-1774

Come along with me and my grandfather as we walk together through four centuries of mail delivery

Portsmouth's four century battle with the elements

How our community successfully navigated the massive social and economic changes that were reshaping America

From folk medicine to modern hospitals

Portsmouth's financial evolution

From colonial constables to modern police, I'll connect my experience living in Central America and San Francisco to colonial Portsmouth

Explore the rich tradition of Portsmouth cabinetmakers and the distinctive architectural styles rhat make Portsmouth one of New England's most beautiful cities

Speed and grace on the high seas

Hear about one of the most beloved foreign figures in American history, his memorable Portsmouth visit in 1824 and the reenactments that keep his memory alive in our community

Reminisce with me at some of Portsmouth's beloved restaurants

Find out why Portsmouth opted out of the lucrative whaling industry

Portsmouth's own sanctioned pirates of the sea

From "the first colonial industry in America" to today's modern fishing fleets, 400 years of living from the sea

The cultural heart of the Seacoast Area

How rails transformed Portsmouth from over two hundred years of reliance on ships and horses

Meet some of Portsmouth's most famous female trailblazers and community leaders

How Portsmouth stayed connected through the centuries, from America's oldest newspaper to modern digital communications

Building community through brotherhood

How manufacturing shaped our city