Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Hatcherville

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Neal Hatcher's Campus View, known as Hatcherville While the Marting’s rip-off has gotten most of the attention in the last coupl...
Wednesday, February 16, 2005

A Good Man is Hard to Find

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Andrew O. Clausing, circa 1980 Andrew O. Clausing (1922-2002) was a controversial political figure in Portsmouth, but on the basis of resear...
Monday, February 07, 2005

The Mauling of Harold Daub

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A 1980 photo of Daub before the "mauling" I recently had a long talk with Harold Daub, who once was and has recently become again...
Thursday, January 27, 2005

Student Housing Shenanigans at SSU

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Student Housing Shenanigans at SSU Hatcherville On John Street, prostitutes and drug dealers may have helped Neal Hatcher tras...
Thursday, January 13, 2005

"A-Marting We Will Go!"

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What does this house have in common with the Marting building? We should add a new word to Portsmouth’s lexicon, “marting,” meaning ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2004

High on the Hog: Jesse Stuart's Ohio

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“I have never seen a city as original and friendly as my beautiful Portsmouth.” Jesse Stuart (1906-1984) Jesse Stuart’s feelings ab...
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Portsmouth's Red Light District

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Law offices of Clayton Johnson, downtown Portsmouth “And the Marting Foundation said, ‘Let there be lights downtown,’ and there were light...
Monday, December 13, 2004

The Unsinkable Molly Williams: A River Tale

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Some years ago, in the Fall following her summer stint as an intern for the Judge, the young woman who would later be known as the Unsi...