2018 Past News & Events

Seacoastonline News. Article by Anne Arnold, February 11, 2018 As we celebrate Black History Month during the month of February, and begin the solemn Christian tradition of Lent (the 40 weekdays leading up to Easter), the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of New Hampshire has started a program in partnership with the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire for 2018 that links both these commemorations into one. For this Lenten observance, the Diocese tasked parishioners to commit to learning about…

By Anne Arnold

Every society has its collective memories. The U.S. has, among others, Washington and the cherry tree, Paul Revere’s ride, and Benjamin Franklin’s inventions. The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire’s annual event, the Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks, is a series of participatory lectures related to New Hampshire’s hidden history of people of color. This year the series will explore how memory is shaped and how it operates to create a value system even if what is collectively remembered deviates from facts.

By Hadley Barndollar PORTSMOUTH — As Dr. King once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Those honoring the civil rights leader’s life Monday chose justice. The annual breakfast and celebration held by the Seacoast NAACP graced South Church in Portsmouth this year with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy on display, contrasted with the present day use of what speakers called divisive, xenophobic language from the highest office in the United…

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Stepping off a boat in a New Hampshire port in 1796, 22-year-old Ona Judge was on the run from the family of President George Washington. Judge, who was born into slavery and served Martha Washington for most of her young life, had slipped away from the president’s official residence when the capital was in Philadelphia and boarded a ship as the Washingtons prepared to return to their plantation house in Mount Vernon, Virginia. With a $10…