My favorite entries in this series come when I can use a place as an excuse to talk about people. So yeah, I dig Hayden's Sports on Main...

I learned to ballroom dance in college, when Jen and I took a few semesters of lessons at the MUB. We became sufficiently confident in...

Yes, I'm going to tell a story about KFC. I'm going to tell it because even to this day, almost thirty years later, I can't drive down...

With the sad news yesterday of the passing of Mr. Meehan, this seems an appropriate time to reflect on the school that only knew two...

On Memorial Day, we specifically honor those servicemen and women who gave what President Lincoln called "the last full measure of...

I wasn't born in Portsmouth Cottage Hospital, the elegant 1895 building in the picture accompanying this post. That was the city's...

As any New Englander knows, candlepin is the only legitimate form of bowling. Candlepin is older, invented in 1880, before the...

Hamilton Smith was a Kentucky native who grew up in Durham in the mid-19th century and was one of the builders of the London Underground....

I still call it Pease Air Force Base, even though it hasn't been that for more than a quarter century. As a kid growing up in Stratham...

In 1845, Zurich confectioner David Sprüngli-Schwartz opened a small chocolate shop. In 1876, fellow Swiss candymaker Rodolphe Lindt...

There are 234 towns and cities in New Hampshire, and none of them has as enduring and iconic a symbol as the Bandstand that graces the...

Ah, Channel 11. Growing up, it was how we were introduced to British comedies like Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, or watched the endless...