Drawing by Bruce E. Ingmire

Join us for our Memorial Concert to remember Athenaeum Proprietors who passed in 2022; performed by Mike Blair and Jim Prendergast in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room.

The Athenaeum lecture series, “Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 Part 2,” continues with An Abundance of Cod:  Fueling the New World. Ann Beattie will take you a step back in time to the early 17th century when Europeans began to sail to the New World and carry home tales of wondrous riches in the form of the obliging cod fish.
 
Lecture is held in the third-floor Shaw Research Library and via Zoom.
 
Each program begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Shaw Research Library of the Portsmouth Athenaeum at 9 Market Square in Portsmouth, NH (unless otherwise noted). Reservations for each program are required as seating is limited. Please call (603) 431-2538 to reserve. If unable to keep a reservation, please call again to release the seat for someone else.

Attendance at programs is free for Athenaeum Proprietors, Subscribers and Friends. Guests and members of the public are welcome to attend the entire series by becoming a Friend of the Athenaeum for as little as $25 per year, payable at the door. Admission to an individual program is $10.

Every presenter in this year's lecture series is a Proprietor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, suggesting the breadth of knowledge and interest in its dissemination that characterizes Athenaeum members. Each lecturer looks forward to engaging our audience with their knowledge. 

A talk and reception celebratingthe bicentennial of the New Hampshire Historical Society [NHHS], which traces its ownorigins back to the Portsmouth celebration of the bicentennial of New Hampshirein May of 1823. Trace the history of one of New England’s oldest historicalorganizations, and meet some of the dynamic people keeping it alive in the 21stcentury. 
 
The event begins at 4:30 in the third-floor Shaw Research Library.

Join Peter Randall, publisher and photographer, in conversation with author Tom Curren about his new book All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition. All Join Hands is a memoir of Dudley Laufman who received the highest honor for traditional artists, the National Heritage  Fellowship, in 2009. 
 
The program and book signing begins at 5:30 p.m. in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room. 

UPDATE, due to limited seating, reservations are required. Please call (603) 431-2538 to RSVP.