Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Archaeology is Changing Old History

Portsmouth Historical Society 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

There is treasure here but not the pirate kind. Scientific "digs" on Smuttynose Island are changing New England history. Archaeologist Nathan Hamilton has unearthed 300,000 artifacts to date on this largely uninhabited rock at the Isles of Shoals. Evidence proves prehistoric Native Americans hunted New Hampshire's only offshore islands 6,000 years ago. Hundreds of European […]

Arts and Culture in 1970s Portsmouth

Portsmouth Historical Society 10 Middle Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

Join Marguerite Mathews, founder and co-artistic director of the Pontine Theatre, and Jon Kimbell, former artistic director of Theatre by the Sea for a conversation about the flourishing arts and cultural scene that developed in Portsmouth in the 1970s.