River Vices

The Mowery property at 1327 Kinney's Lane The First Commandment of Portsmouth real estate is that when a person of influence has ...

The Marting Building,  alias the Town Center, All Aglow As hard as it is to believe, the empty, leaky, moldy, politically radioacti...

The Loco Fred Astaire Can of Worms Logo The phrase “a can of worms” has not been around very long so its meaning is still evo...

Money-addicted Fox and Skunk  In my previous post, “A Brief History of Portsmouth’s Psychotropic Addictions,”  I said there is...

In the last sixty-five years or so, psychotropic (mind altering) drugs  have had a profound  impact on America and on  Portsmouth in partic...

Vernier's $425,000 house and 2.5 acres on a hill in West Portsmouth Who’s the more remote caregiver? Hughes prefers...

An aerial view of Ed Hughes' big house high on a hill “ It takes a whole lot of Suboxone To detox a toxic oxen.”...

And the Wall Came Tumbling Down “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” Robert Frost wrote in one of his unforgettable poems....

ROACHES OVERWHELMINGLY FOR JONES                                1 Listen voters and you shall hear Of candid...

First Harmful Legacy "It was not long after the change back to the City Manager form of government that KWJ became ...