Thursday, November 1, 2007 –Portsmouth’s Halloween Parade just keeps getting better. Here, Parade Grand Marshal Donald Trumpet, accompanied by his gold-plated Trophy Wife, is preceded by two of his Yes Men. We’d say more but the paper is due at the printer’s. Here are a few notable items from November 1’s gone by:
2004—Voting machines are [...]

Wednesday, October 31, 2007 –The high point of Portsmouth’s social season comes this evening, about 7:00 p.m., when an odd assortment of characters will step off from the parking lot beside the South Mill Pond, and parade through downtown.
1968—President Johnson orders a halt to bombing of North Vietnam.
1967—Calif. governor Ronald Reagan denies a “homosexual ring” [...]

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 – Jeez, Louise. Just when you get a good rhythm going, one of the local cable monopoly’s amplifiers goes blooey, and fries your modem, and then fries the replacement modem they give you, and you can’t get online for days. Ah, well, we’re back. Here are some items from Page [...]

Saturday, October 27 – In light of the ever-increasing popularity of New Hampshire’s State Motto, we direct the reader’s attention to the item, below, from 1791: “Insurrections have broke out in Switzerland—the motto on the buttons is, ‘Live free, or die.’”
Seventeen years after that item was first published, General John Stark (right) used the same [...]

Friday, October 26, 2007 – “I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.” – Mark Twain
2003—Iraqi resistance fighters nearly get Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz with a rocket in Baghdad.
2001—George W. Bush eagerly signs [...]

Thursday, October 25, 2007 – “The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.” — Flannery O’Connor
2001—Only one Senator—Russ Feingold—votes against the USA PATRIOT Act.
1973—As Nixon sleeps, Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and five other unelected officials raise America’s military readiness level to [...]

Wednesday, October 24, 2007—Page Sixteen of The New Hampshire Gazette is devoted to Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide (Not for Navigational Purposes). This semi-popular feature graphically illustrates the state of our mighty river’s extraordinary tides over the course of the coming fortnight. We get our tidal data and its cunning graphic representation (see the [...]

Friday, October 19 – This space has been rather quiet lately. We spent about a week hammering on 1s and 0s to make our new Distribution map work. Then we had to scurry to organize a rather large number of letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, photographs, and miscellaneous other components into something that vaguely resembles a [...]

Thursday, October 11 – No doubt some visitors wondered if we’d wandered off and gotten lost in some dusty corridor, and become bemused by a dusty old volume of back issues from a previous century. No, not this time.
We have been nudging tiny little patches of magnetism one way and another, making piles and stacks [...]