Thursday, April 30, 2015

All Aboard to Go Backwards!

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The crooked conductor on the Twentieth Century Ltd.  All Aboard for those wanting to go backwards!  Be ...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Julia Marlowe: The Tomboy and the Lady

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The hefty Marlowe as a girl playing  a boy  in   Twelfth Night Marlowe playing Rosalind posing as a male  in As Y...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Feldman's Legacy

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[ For the light it throws on the current city manager's role in Portsmouth, I am reposting an article  from 2005 on former city man...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Black Friday: Unfinished Business

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Fugitive Slaves (1867) by Theodor Kaufmann I have posted on Black Friday before on River Vices .  Under the rubric of unfinished bu...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

City Seal Snafu

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Our officious First Ward councilman Kevin W. Johnson, didn't like the mayoral form of government, so he sneakily got the change back t...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Dr. Wonderful and Sciotocized Medicine

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 "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the most wonderful of all?" “ When you set back and look at all the wonderful p...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

The Little Old Lady with the Bad Knee and the Unlicensed M.D.

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Above is a grainy photo of a little old lady who is no longer with us. That's her hair not a pillow behind her head. It's so ...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Buffaloed by Ed Hughes

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Is Ed Hughes' time buffaloing the public about up? More than once, Ed Hughes and Ronald Turner, co-authors of Baffled by Addict...
Friday, January 09, 2015

The Cross, Dancing Logo, and Dollar Sign

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1 The  cross, representing  the promise of eternal life  through Christ’s suffering, is the central symbol of Christianity. This...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Judge Mowery and the First Amendment

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