I had the pleasure of writing about the newly restored Wood Island Life Saving Station for the September 3, 2026 edition of the Seacoast Scene newspaper. My editor asked me to cover this story, and I’m so glad he did because I had a lot of fun visiting the island and writing about the station. … Read more

Since fall is just around the corner and public interest in the Salem Witch Trials tends to peak around then, I decided to write about Salem Witch Trials historic sites on the seacoast for the August 27, 2026 edition of the Seacoast Scene newspaper. Not a lot of people know that the Salem Witch Trials … Read more

In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, I wrote an article in the July 16, 2026 edition of the Seacoast Scene newspaper about some local historic houses on the Seacoast that have ties to the American Revolution. Historic house museums have been struggling to attract visitors for a long time, but visits to historic houses have … Read more

This week in the June 25, 2026 edition of the Seacoast Scene newspaper, I wrote about some local shipwrecks on the Seacoast that you can actually see in person, either from the shore or in a museum or both. I got the idea for the story after learning about the Jennie M. Carter shipwreck at … Read more

Check out my new article about the history of the Salisbury Beach State Reservation in the June 11-17, 2026 edition of the Seacoast Scene. The state reservation has a long and fascinating history, and I wish I had more than the 700 words the newspaper gave me to tell the full story. Whatever I had … Read more

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau‘s birth, Virginia Woolf wrote an essay about Thoreau for the Times Literary Supplement in July of 1917. Woolf was actually an admirer of American writers like Thoreau because she felt that they were more inventive and adventurous than British writers, who she believed were sometimes too … Read more

I recently wrote an article about the 35th anniversary of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant for the Seacoast Scene, and I talked to so many employees that I gathered more information than I could even fit in a short 700-word article. Thanks to Lindsay Robertson, Senior Communication Strategist at NextEra Energy, I was able … Read more

I wrote about the history of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, NH, in the August 21, 2025 edition of the Seacoast Scene. This August is the 35th anniversary of the Seabrook power plant beginning commercial operations, and I was excited to be able to write about it. The plant was built between … Read more

Check out my new article in the August 7, 2025 issue of the Seacoast Scene, which is about the history of the Salisbury Beach Police Station. This old police station has just been sold with plans to demolish it and turn it into a condotel. I heard about the sale of the building from a … Read more