Portsmouth NH 400th book tells city's history in 101 objects
What do a floral cotton dress, a wooden leg, the clockworks in the North Church steeple and a pet cemetery have in common?
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What do a floral cotton dress, a wooden leg, the clockworks in the North Church steeple and a pet cemetery have in common?
Lawrence J. Yerdon, president and chief executive officer of the Strawbery Banke Museum for 18 years, will retire in January 2023.
"I am happy to now be a citizen because there is more I can do. I can vote. I can run for office,"
PORTSMOUTH - Strawbery Banke began the construction of a traditional Indigenous wigwam Wednesday morning, six years after archaeological excavations discovered possible remains of a wigwam on campus. Paul and Denise Pouliot, head speakers of the Cowasuck Band of Pennacook-Abenaki people based in Alton, led a blessing of the land outside of the Yeaton-Walsh House before construction began. The Pouliots sang and sprinkled the site of the wigwam with a longleaf, Connecticut River Valley tobacco. “What we were doing is we were thanking Creator for our homelands,” Denise Puoliot said of the ...