The John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth recently underwent a major interior restoration. Five rooms were patched up and repainted thanks to a grant from Americana Corner's Preserving America program.

Paul, also known as John Paul Getty III, was the grandson of J. Paul Getty, the man who began making money from oil leases in the 1910s and became extremely wealthy.

In 1973, Getty's teenage son from his first marriage, John Paul III, was abducted in Italy and held for five months. It was only after the kidnappers cut off part of his ear and sent it to the ...