N’dalosabna Piscataquak and Map by Lisa Brooks
Foreword by A Portsmouth NH History in 101 Objects Advisors
A Rainbow of Cultures by Joanna Kelley
Savings Places and Building Community by Jameson French
Expectation to Opportunity: The Paths of Portsmouth Women by MaryJo Brown
City of the Open Door (1923 Brochure) by Deaglan McEachern
Still Here (Chert blade scraper) by Alexandra Martin and Anne Jennison
They Came to Fish (Piscataqua River Watershed) by Jeff Bolster
MAP: “Piscatway River in New England by I.S. Americanus” c. 1655-60
The Things They Carried (1660-90 Sherburne Mirror) by Sandra Rux
Piscataqua Region Desk Box (1685) by Hollis Brodrick & Gerald W.R. Ward
Marsh Shoe/Snowshoe by Hollis Brodrick
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350 Years of Faith in the Port City (North Church) by Douglas Woodward
Portsmouth’s Historic Cemeteries by Chris Benecick
Remnants of Wood & Belief (Jackson daisywheel) by Emerson W. Baker & Alyssa G.A. Conary
Diplomacy in the Dawnland (1713 Treaty of Portsmouth) by Charles B. Doleac, Esq.
Peace on the Frontier (1718 Warner House Murals) by Martha Pinello
One of the Oldest Lodges (St. John’s Masonic Lodge No.1, 1736) by Rodney McDonald
HMS America: A New Naval Heritage (Ship’s Model 1746) by Elizabeth Aykroyd & Rob Napier
Molly’s Table (1750) by Gerald W.R. Ward
Governor’s Lodgings (1753-60 Wentworth Mansion) by Peter J. Michaud
Treasures of St. John’s (Baptismal Font, Bell, Roberts Stained Glass Window) by Ronan Donohoe
“America’s Oldest Newspaper” (1756 New Hampshire Gazette) by Steve Fowle
Colonial Luxuries (1763 Chippendale Chairs) by Barbara McLean Ward
From Mansion to Museum (1763 Moffatt-Ladd House) by Barbara McLean Ward
Pre-Revolutionary Tastes (1765 “China Table”) by Gerald W.R. Ward
Raise the Flag, Boys! (1766 Liberty Pole & 1824 Laban Beecher Eagle) by Sherm Pridham
Some Tastemakers of Early Portsmouth (1767-90 Wallpapers) by Richard C. Nylander
Women’s Voices, Stilled (1768 Hanging of Ruth Blay Mural) by Carolyn Marvin
The Way Things Were in 1774 (“Residence of George Boyd” Landscape) by Thomas Hardiman, Jr.
The Cut of a Revolutionary (1774 Samuel Cutts’ Suit & Paul Revere) by Elizabeth Farish
Witness to History (1776 Independence Tree planted by William Whipple) by Charles Baxter
Mixed Messages: Stavers’ Pitt Tavern (1777) by Stephanie Seacord
Black Petitioners for Freedom by Barbara McLean Ward
John Paul Jones Visits Portsmouth (1780 Houdon Bust) by J. Dennis Robinson
Langdon: Patriot, Patrician, Politician (1784 Gov. Langdon Mansion) by Melissa Kershaw
The State Seal and the Raleigh (1784) by Secretary of State William Gardner
Walking with Washington (1789 Hair Memorial and Wine Glass) by Elizabeth Farish
Water Works (Portsmouth Water System (1797 Wood Pipes) by Brian F. Goetz
“From Sails to Atoms” (1800 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard) by Gary Hildreth
An Early Adopter’s Comforts of Home (1807 Rundlet-May House, 1807) by Melissa Kershaw
The Place That Shaped Daniel Webster (1807-17 Portsmouth Residences) by Peggy Newland
An Embargo Falls, An Artform Rises (1813 Judkins and Senter Sideboard) by Gerald W.R. Ward
1813 Map Map of the compact part of the town of Portsmouth in the state of New Hampshire.
In War’s Aftermath (“Uncle Billy’s Sunday Leg” and the Spaulding Papers) by Jessica Ross
Looking Forward: Looking Back (1830 John Samuel Blunt Landscape) by Deborah M. Child
Patently Knit (1839 Richard Walker Knitting Machine Patent) by Richard M. Candee
A Kinder, Gentler Portsmouth (1840 Sampler by Sarah Currier) by Tara Vose Raiselis
King Cotton in Portsmouth (1845 Sarah Parker Goodwin Dress) by Elizabeth Farish
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A West Indies’ Merchant’s Stoneware Jug by Gerald W.R. Ward
This is Clipper Country (1851 Witch of the Wave Model) by Stephanie Seacord
Time Will Tell (1854 North Church Steeple Clock) by Robert Sullivan, Esq.
Beneath Portsmouth Arches (1853 Return of the Sons of Portsmouth Lithograph) by Jane Nylander
Brewster’s Rambles (1859) by Thomas Hardiman, Jr.
Field of Rosewood Dreams (1866 Base Ball in Portsmouth) by Thomas R. Watson
“Coming from the Navy Yard” (1867 Thomas P. Moses Painting) by Richard M. Candee
“Not so really bad a boy” (1870 Story of a Bad Boy, Thomas Bailey Aldrich) by Charles Librizzi
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Creatures Great and Small (1870 Rundlet-May Pet Cemetery) by Peter J. Michaud
More Rapid Than Eagles (James Bellamy’s Eagles) by Jim Craig
Fire! Portsmouth’s Kearsarge (1870 Kearsarge Steam Engine) by Steven E. Achilles
A Sense of the Place (Sarah Haven Foster, Portsmouth Guidebook 1876) by Maryellen Burke
1877 “Bird’s-eye view print of Portsmouth, New Hampshire”
The Music Hall Behind the Curtain (1878 The Music Hall Painted Canvas) by Zhana Morris
“History Lights Our Way” (1878 Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse) by Jeremy D’Entremont
Celia Thaxter: Light in the Isles (1880 Ceramics, Portrait and Poetry) by Nicole Luongo Cloutier
Typecast and Masthead (1884 Portsmouth Herald) by Howard Altschiller
Capt. Edward Adams’ Great Bay (1886 Adams Carvings) by Michael Provost
Venetian Stone Lions (1887 Creek Farm) by Peter J. Michaud
Portsmouth Remembers the Civil War (1888 Soldiers & Sailors Monument) by Mike Pride
The Rockingham Lion (1889 Frank Jones’ Rockingham Hotel Lions) by Glenn A. Knoblock
Citizen Diplomacy Matters (1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty) by Charles B. Doleac, Esq.
Temple Israel Memory Book (1905-present Temple Israel Community) by Fran Berman
Setting the Stage for Preservation (1915 Wallace Nutting Wentworth-Gardner by Richard M. Candee
A New Era, In Deed (1916 Women’s City Club Deed by Ellen Fineberg
The Memorial Bridge 1923-2013 by Tammi Truax
Carbon Footprint in Coal Dust (1930 Walker Coal Co. Coal Bag) by Rodney Rowland
Keeping the Waterfront Working (1937 Cheney. “Bow St.”) by Richard M. Candee & Jack Blalock
Cautious Ventures (1938 Rock Rest Chair) by Gerald W.R. Ward
A Taste of Portsmouth (1941 Gilley’s) by Rachel Forrest
Under the Sea in Ships (1941 Shipyard Submarines) by D. Allan Kerr
Black Entrepreneurs (1950 Rosary Cooper Beauty Shop) by Barbara McLean Ward
The End of Puddle Dock by Sherm Pridham
The Community Dining Room (1947 Yoken’s Sign) by Chuck Carlton & John P. Bohenko
Rainbow Reflections (1955 Sagamore Club Sign) by Tom Kaufhold
In the Hands of Antiquity (1950 Ed Weissman Antiques Sign) by Laura Calhoun
Portsmouth Greenspaces (1954 Prescott Park) by Charles Baxter
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Pease: Carrots and Sticks (1982 Pease Air Force Base) by Roger Wood
Neighborhood of Newcomers (1958 Strawbery Banke Museum) by Lawrence J. Yerdon
The Loss and Legacy of USS Thresher (1963) by Kevin Galeaz
Portsmouth’s Lost Little Italy (1969) by Laura Pope
A Dining Dynasty: The Blue Strawbery (1970) by James Haller
Something Endures (1971-72 David Atwater Paintings of the North End) by Richard M. Candee
Market Square Reimagined and Revitalized (1970) by Robert Thoresen
The Curtain Rises on a Cultural Economy (1977 Pontine) by Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews
We All Lived by a Yellow Submarine (1983 Children’s Museum of Portsmouth) by Denny Doleac
Roots & Branches of Living Memory (1985 Sister City Cherry Trees) by Stephanie Seacord
Under November Skies (1990 Salt Piles) by Carl Hyatt
Live Music Beckons: The Elvis Room & Beyond (1993) by Denise Wheeler
Learning to Dance: The Shipyard Project (1994) by Chris Dwyer
An Umbrella for a Parade (1994 Halloween Parade) by Trevor Bartlett
A Citizen for Every Year: Mayor Eileen Foley (1995 Citizen of the Year Plate) by Mary Carey Foley
Save Our Shipyard! (2005 Yellow T-shirt) by Paul O’Connor
The Riverine World of Gundalow Piscataqua (2008-11) by Molly Bolster
We Stand for Those Unnamed, Unrecorded (African Burying Ground Memorial) by Valerie Cunningham
Picking Up the Pieces (2020 Community Quilts) by Cathryn Czajlowski
An Eye to the Future (North Church Weathervane) by J. Dennis Robinson
2030 Map: Projection of 18 feet of Sea Level Rise
Acknowledgements
Index