How Old Is This Building?

June 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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(Third in a series of guest posts by historian, journalist and author, J. Dennis Robinson) Every summer my wife Maryellen and I spend a week in the Haley Cottage on Smuttynose Island. We’re headed there now. The boat is waiting. It’s like tenting indoors. There’s no bathroom, no electricity, no working well. There is a…Read More

6,000 Years of History on Display at the Discover Portsmouth Center

May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The Isles of Shoals are a small group of islands, approximately 6 miles off the coast of New England, straddling the borders of New Hampshire and Maine.  Smuttynose, the 3rd largest of these islands, has a colorful history.  Known as the site for Blackbeard’s honeymoon and a shipwreck of the Spanish ship Sagunto in 1813,…Read More