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[Note: To our bug-eyed surprise, the following message appeared in our email inbox on Tuesday, May 2nd. – The Ed.] The N.H. Division of Historical Resources is…

Esther Kennedy suggested naming the park after hundreds of families who decades ago lost their homes in Portsmouths North End to urban renewal.

For 10 years, long ago, there was an elk outside my bedroom window. It never moved. The life-sized bronze statue stood on a pedestal in front of the Elks Lodge in downtown Portsmouth. I lived across from 93 Pleasant St. I was so fascinated by the giant metal deer that I never paid much attention to the three-story brick building that loomed behind.  I didn’t know it had been a private home and a hotel, and I didn’t believe the rumor that George Washington slept there. Until last week, I ...