On Thursday, Dec. 15, Portsmouth High School photography students Kailiana Dunlap, Jackie Sunderland and Sara Cooney and their teacher, Janet Kasparian, participated as volunteers and photographers in the Gingerbread Express Event at the …

Lilly Dissette, 8, of Newburyport, took first prize in this year’s Gingerbread Contest at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, N.H.

You don’t need to be Scrooge to visit Christmas past. This year’s Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth is celebrating “Visions of Winters Past,” with more than 200 years of holiday traditions on the historic grounds