"We always ate on the front porch, her in the swing, me in a rocker, a little table between us, and we watched the cars go by on 101 while she told me stories about growing up in that house."
Month: May 2025
“Cast on shore, at a place called Ocracock”: Mariners’ Accounts of Storms and Shipwrecks in the Collections of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, 1804-1817
On a stormy day last fall, I visited the Portsmouth Athenaeum, a venerable old library in Portsmouth, N.H., in search of old manuscripts on the maritime history of the North Carolina coast.
David Cecelski 