Tag: Piscataqua River

• Gundalow

  6 August 2025 In this brave new world of OpenAI offering both “companionship” for the lonely and the undoing of education as I once knew it, I’ve been seeking solace from such discombobulating changes in the macrocosm—and in my personal microcosm as well.  The latest physical annoyance in the latter:   floating bodies—chips of bone in…

  georgeannmurphy

  August 14, 2025

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  Gundalow, maritime history, Mervin F. Roberts, Piscataqua River, Portsmouth Naval Prison, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth NH, Prescott Park, Sam Reid, Seacoast Village Project, US Coast Guard, WILSSA, Wood Island Life Saving Station

• Revolution 2024

  4 July 2024 On Saturday, 15 June, Durham NH celebrated—six months early—the sestercentennial (aka 250th anniversary) of some doughty Durham residents’ 1774 raid on the British Fort William and Mary in New Castle, enacting there at the mouth of the Piscataqua River the first major act of colonial rebellion that took place four months before…

  georgeannmurphy

  July 4, 2024

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  american-revolution, Durham NH, Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, Ft. William & Mary, Gen. John Sullivan, John Paul’s stone house, Madbury NH, New Castle NH, Oyster River, Paul Revere, Piscataqua River, Powder Major DeMerritt