Bell Ringing Celebration September 5

On Tuesday bells will ring across Portsmouth and Kittery in celebration of the signing of the Portsmouth Treaty in 1905, which ended the Russo-Japanese War (and for which Theodore Roosevelt earned the Nobel Peace Prize). Every year on September 5, bells in Portsmouth and Kittery are rung at 3:47 PM, the time when the treaty […]

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