Portsmouth Time Machine for 2023
BUILDING A PORTSMOUTH TIME MACHINE -- It's true. illustrator ROBERT SQUIER er and I are knee-deep into the creation of a 32-page comic book-style history of Portsmouth that we hope to release before summer 2023. It was just a glint in our eye until, thanks to Denise Wheeler, Portsmouth400 and the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation, we received funds to get down to work. PORTSMOUTH TIME MACHINE will feature the adventure of two young students who, due to a cell phone glitch while studying online, are catapulted through time. Instead of reading about local history, Seth and Ella encounter key events and people from Portsmouth's past. The last 400-year survey history book about Portsmouth for kids went out of print in the 1960s, so now seemed the ideal time to create a fun and factual 21st century version. Other local supporters to date include Peter Egelston amd Amanda and Jay McSharry, The project also dovetails with my next book-in-progress for students and adults--1623-- that explores the largely forgotten and short-lived fishing outpost at Rye from which New Hampshire takes its founding date. Here's a glimpse of the characters that we'll all come to love as we share their time traveling adventure next year. Okay Rob, back to the drawing board.
WHAT ELSE IS NEW FOR 22? A LOT
IT'S BEEN A BUSY YEAR!
Click on the pictures to see my first novel POINT OF GRAVES
plus A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORTH CHURCH
& eight short BITE-SIZED VIDEOS about the MUSIC HALL
See my latest (almost 100) newspaper features
BY CLICKING HERE
JUST DID A PODCAST TOO
I'm about 20 minutes into this interview with
the US Lighthouse Society
Meanwhile, here's another podcast I did recently
with Connecticut Public Radio
PLUS
I did a one hour true crime murder podcast on
MOST NOTORIOUS
& here's a really good one
NH MAGAZINE: Don't miss my 3,000 word article (10 whole colorful pages) on the history of the Music Hall in the March issue.
Click on the pictures to see my first novel POINT OF GRAVES
plus A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORTH CHURCH
& eight short BITE-SIZED VIDEOS about the MUSIC HALL
See my latest (almost 100) newspaper features
BY CLICKING HERE
JUST DID A PODCAST TOO
I'm about 20 minutes into this interview with
the US Lighthouse Society
Meanwhile, here's another podcast I did recently
with Connecticut Public Radio
PLUS
I did a one hour true crime murder podcast on
MOST NOTORIOUS
& here's a really good one
NH MAGAZINE: Don't miss my 3,000 word article (10 whole colorful pages) on the history of the Music Hall in the March issue.
MUSIC HALL BOOK IS HERE !!
The ultimate holiday gift book has arrived. Three years in the making MUSIC HALL is a 256-page full-color
hardcover history of the landmark 1878 Portsmouth, NH theater. Includes 288 illustrations plus a capsule history of the performing arts in New Hampshire's only seaport. Check the EVENTS section for signings and lectures. Ask for your copy from key locations including Discover Portsmouth, Riverrun Books, Water Street Books, Sheafe Street Books, B&N and, of course, the Music Hall.
hardcover history of the landmark 1878 Portsmouth, NH theater. Includes 288 illustrations plus a capsule history of the performing arts in New Hampshire's only seaport. Check the EVENTS section for signings and lectures. Ask for your copy from key locations including Discover Portsmouth, Riverrun Books, Water Street Books, Sheafe Street Books, B&N and, of course, the Music Hall.
Publisher Grace Peirce, yours truly, and Music Hall historian and production manager Zhana Morris grin for the camera in this photo by Rich Beauchesne in November 2019. The article by editor Jane Murphy was featured in the Portsmouth Herald. Click on the photo to read the story.
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