Asides
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A House of History, Mystery, Legend, and Lore
Hampton is a very strange, very haunted town, a place where fact and fiction tangle together like lobster traps in a hurricane. And judging from the content of the locally-produced literary efforts on file at the Historical Society, the people like it that way. This fact v. fiction conundrum is no more evident than in […]
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Hampton’s Founding Documents
For such a little state, New Hampshire has an amazingly large and complicated history, especially during the early days when it seemed that everybody and their minister wanted a piece of her soil. So it’s not surprising that the myth of the state’s ‘four original townships chartered by the General Court of Massachusetts’ continues to […]
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The Millionaire, the Minister, and the Museum
It was the 1920s, the war to end all wars had been fought and won, prosperity was rising, morals were relaxing, and a rush of innovations was creating a new mass consumer culture in America. Amid all the ‘roaring’ going on in the country, significant changes were taking place in Hampton, too. The population was […]
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The Boy Aviator at Hampton Beach
In his brilliant new book The Wright Brothers, historian David McCullough reminds us that in 1903, when the two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio proved to the world that powered flight was possible, America was not entirely onboard with the idea that machines could fly. Wilbur Wright made his first public flights in front of […]
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Small Towns Are the Best!
I love living in a place where a body can call you up on the phone and say “I’d like to buy your book for my granddaughter’s birthday…how can I get it from you?” and a couple of hours later, there you are, hand-delivering the book to her home! Jeannette is a life-long resident of […]
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Map of Historical Tavern Locations in Hampton
Right-click the map to save a copy to your computer, or use the Save and Print tools under your browser’s File menu. The book in which this map appears, “A Meet and Suitable Person: Tavernkeeping in Old Hampton, NH, 1638-1783,” is available at Amazon.
Cheryl Lassiter 