Book Signing: EM Ippolito The Tears of Other People

Book Signing: EM Ippolito The Tears of Other People

Ippolito Book Signing 8.25

Join us for a book signing with author E.M. Ippolito.

Get a chance to hear from and speak with the author of The Tears of Other People.

Books will be available for sale in the gift shop. Admission is free, no RSVP required.

EM Ippolito Author Image

About the Author:

Evie (E. M. Ippolito) was raised a settler on unceded Abenaki-Pennacook land in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She is a trans writer of fiction and nonfiction living in Brooklyn, Lenapehoking, where she pursues a degree in library information science.

About the Book:

The Tears of Other People is an attempt by author E. M. Ippolito to make sense of her alienation from her hometown of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Both local history and personal memoir, the book explores the history of discriminatory programs on the New Hampshire seacoast, from gentrification to European colonization, charting personal and political connections across decades of urban change. Dispossession has an infamous history on the beautiful Portsmouth waterfront, where in the 1960s a colonial museum called Strawbery Banke displaced the working-class neighborhood of Puddle Dock.

Book Signing: “Lucy’s Voice” with Dennis Robinson

Book Signing: “Lucy’s Voice” with Dennis Robinson

Lucy's Voice by Dennis Robinson, book signing on December 11

Join us as local author, Dennis Robinson, reads from his new history-mystery!

Image of author J. Dennis Robinson wearing glasses and a sweater.

About the Author:

J. Dennis Robinson is a popular columnist, lecturer, and public historian.
He is the author of a dozen narrative history books on topics ranging from Jesse James, Lord Baltimore, and child labor exploitation to Wentworth by the Sea Hotel, Strawbery Banke Museum, Privateer Lynx, archaeology at the Isles of Shoals, and the infamous 1873 Smuttynose Island ax murders.

About the Book:

SHE WAS HAPPILY ENGAGED TO THE MOST HANDSOME MAN IN THE NATION. THEN HE KILLED THE PRESIDENT.
An ornate Spanish dresser reignites a Civil War-era mystery. What did Lucy Hale know when her fiancé, John Wilkes Booth, shot Abraham Lincoln? The privileged daughter of a New Hampshire senator, Lucy was never questioned. Museum caretaker Levi Woodbury and reporter Claire Caswell are drawn into the search for a lost journal that may rewrite history.

Book Signing: Lighthouses of New Hampshire

Book Signing: Lighthouses of New Hampshire

“Lighthouses of New Hampshire” book reading and signing with author Jeremy D’Entremont on July 17.

Join us for a book signing with author Jeremy D’Entremont.

Get a chance to hear from and speak with the author of Lighthouses of New Hampshire.

Books will be available for sale in the gift shop. Admission is free, no RSVP required.

Author Jeremy D’Entremont. A white man sits behind a wooden captain's wheel with glasses and a white baseball cap on.

About the Author:

Jeremy D’Entremont has been photographing and writing about lighthouses for almost four decades. He is the author of more than 20 books and hundreds of articles on lighthouses and maritime history, and he has appeared on Public Television and other local and national TV and radio. He is the historian for the U.S. Lighthouse Society and hosts the Society’s weekly podcast, “Light Hearted.” He is a past president of the American Lighthouse Foundation and founder of Friends of Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouses.

About the Book:

Portsmouth Harbor’s 1771 lighthouse was the first lighthouse established in the American colonies north of Boston. A few miles offshore, a lighthouse was established at the southernmost of the Isles of Shoals in 1821. Inland, three wooden lighthouses were built on Lake Sunapee in the late 1800s to guide steamships full of vacationers to their destinations around the lake. All of these locations have stories to tell of dedicated keepers and their families, shipwrecks, rescues, and much more.

Book Signing: Portsmouth (a novel)

Book Signing: Portsmouth (a novel)

Book signing with With James Polus<br />
Author of Portsmouth. Wednesday<br />
May 24<br />
5:30-7pm<br />
Portsmouth<br />
Historical Society<br />
Gift Shop. A cartoon pen is on the left side of the image while the book "portsmouth" is on the right with a green cover and grey text.
Join us for a book signing with author James Polus

Get a chance to meet and speak with the author of Portsmouth.

Books will be available for sale in the gift shop. Admission is free, no RSVP required.

Image of author James Polus. Polus is wearing glasses and a red polo shirt while smiling at the camera.

About the Author:

Originally from Upstate New York, a graduate of Hobart College and Columbia University, and a former life long employee of IBM, Polus has an amazing wife and four accomplished children. Serving in senior financial positions afforded him the opportunity to live in England for one year, followed thereafter by four years in France. He considers himself as a citizen of the world to complement his proud American heritage.

Jame Polus published his first book, entitled “The Dream of AO” in May 2021, followed by the sequel, “Dreams of Lies and Delusions”, published in 2022. The historical backdrop is the Indus Valley civilization, circa 1700 BCE. He believes we can reference ancient civilizations to remind us that the timeless themes of love, courage, honor and redemption have long competed with treachery, deceit, hatred and lust. Professional storytellers perfectly recited long, epic morality tales, illustrating for all peoples the lessons for a virtuous life. Battles over dogma, spiritual beliefs, and rituals date well before written texts.

Polus enjoys creative and imaginary fiction using strong characters to espouse his ideas on human purpose and human equality. The motifs of dreaming and oral traditions serve as the backdrop for his writing. Most of his characters practice mindfulness and are skilled in various forms of meditation. As an avid cyclist, he likes to pedal alone on quiet country roads or traverse along the long ocean stretches, imagining the lives of his characters.

About the Book:

Historical fiction comes to New England with the epic novel, “Portsmouth,” a classical saga reliving the story of a 1623 fictitious family and twelve successive generations that bring New England seacoast history to life.Memorable characters interact with real-life personalities and historical events that shaped America. From the early Puritans to the Sons of Liberty and the Revolutionary War, up through the Great Depression and World War II, the novel brings American notables such as George Washington, Ona Judge Staines, Major General Fitz-John Porter, Frank Jones, and Celia Thaxter into the reader’s imagination.

The novel “Portsmouth” celebrates the 400th anniversary of the founding of this historic seaport, so reminiscent of colonial times