All posts tagged "Portsmouth NH"
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5.7K6Arts and LeisureCelia Thaxter at 58 Realizes What ‘Fun’ Is
Celia Thaxter celebrated her 58th birthday in 1893 at her cottage on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire...
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23.4K6Arts and LeisureSam Walter Foss Writes the Ultimate Poem for the Common Man
The beloved poem House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss is now pretty much forgotten but it was...
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6.3K4Flashback PhotosTeddy Roosevelt Buries John Paul Jones — Again
The relentless self-promoter John Paul Jones would have loved his splendid second funeral at the U.S. Naval Academy, with President Theodore Roosevelt...
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4.7K4Arts and LeisureCelia Thaxter: ‘So Still and Heavenly and Fresh and Full of Promise’
On April 15, 1894, Celia Thaxter sat down in her cottage on the Isles of Shoals and wrote a letter to her friend...
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5.1K3New HampshireCount Rumford, The Loyalist Ben Franklin
Benjamin Thompson played a part in the American Revolution and the revolution in thermodynamics – and then became the German Count Rumford,...
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2.9K1New HampshireTobias Lear Writes George Washington Some Bad News
On March 25, 1796, Tobias Lear wrote a disconsolate letter to George Washington telling him his wife had died. Lear, born in...
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