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Two Seacoast Fireworks Displays Back with A Bang On the Fourth
It s another sign of a return to the old normal: Fourth of July fireworks displays are being scheduled for this summer.
It was a quiet Independence Day in 2020 as most displays were canceled on the Seacoast and around the country because of outdoor crowd restrictions.
Some displays were postponed and others outright canceled due to social distancing protocols and concern about large crowds.
This Independence Day it s a different story as gathering limits put in place during the pandemic in New Hampshire are scheduled to end on Friday clearing the way for firework displays.
I’m a sucker for old musty magazine articles about Portsmouth, the mustier the better. This one has the distant scent of mildew and White Owl Panetelas. I paid too much for it since the story about Portsmouth runs only three pages out of 130 total. This 1955 issue of “New England Journeys,” however, has a lot to offer on the history of Portsmouth tourism, one of my favorite topics.
As I noted earlier this week we became “The City of the Open Door” in the early 1920s. The slogan, created by the newly formed Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, was designed to attract both industry and tourists. It worked, but not in a big way until after World War II. By the 1950s, families were packing their kids into their Ford station wagon and hitting the road. I know because I was one of them.
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J. Dennis Robinson
Slogans, like bumper stickers, tend to fade with age, but they stick like glue. Once applied, they can be tough to remove. Since this city first began courting tourists at the bicentennial celebration of 1823, Portsmouth has had its share of catchy promotional phrases. We were “An Old Town by the Sea,” thanks to the title of an 1883 book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. But by the dawn of the 20th century, that slogan already carried a whiff of decay.
While old colonial mansions drew visitors to New Hampshire’s only seaport, they were of no interest to companies seeking to plant a factory or a new business. Potential companies wanted railroad lines, paved roads, cheap land, and a willing workforce. Members of the Portsmouth Board of Trade and the Merchant’s Exchange recognized what today we call “a branding problem.” So in 1914, they combined forces to publish a slick brochure advertising the city.
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