Athenaeum Open House

Thursday, June 21, 2018

4:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Reading Room

A convivial Athenaeum open house for prospective new members. Learn about the history, collections, and the benefits of membership at the Athenaeum. Come see what is “behind the cannons.”

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6	7	8 Flatbread Pizza Fundraiser Flatbread Pizza Fundraiser September 8, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Flatbread Company, 138 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA This Tuesday, we hope you are hungry for history! For every pizza sold between 5 and 9 p.m., Portsmouth Flatbread will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Athenaeum and the new Douglas Armsden photograph collection. Dine in, take out or delivery! The more pizza you buy (and eat), the more you support the Athenaeum. It's a win-win! Please make sure to tell your friends and family, too. Thank you for your support! If you are unable to attend and wish to support the Armsden Photographic Project, click here. See more details •	9	10	11	12
13 Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum with Joseph S. Nye Jr. Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum with Joseph S. Nye Jr. September 13, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum welcomes Joseph S. Nye Jr., author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (2020). The program via Zoom, recognizes the 115th anniversary of the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty on September 5, 1905. The program is free and open to the public. To register, click here. The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum was founded in 1994 to explore diplomatic themes “in the spirit of The Portsmouth Peace Treaty.” Since then, the Forum has hosted senior diplomats including Ambassadors Dennis Ross, Samantha Power, National Security Council member Fiona Hill and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. See more details •	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22 Online Talk: The Life, Times and Political Career of Levi Woodbury Online Talk: The Life, Times and Political Career of Levi Woodbury September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Online This program is co-hosted with the Portsmouth Public Library. Registration is required. The Zoom link will be sent the week of the event. About the talk Levi Woodbury gained fame as both a Judge and a Politician. As a Judge, he was one of the youngest men, if not youngest, ever to be appointed to New Hampshire’s highest Court in 1816. Following his service on New Hampshire’s Court, he spent many years in politics until he was named by President Polk to the United States Supreme Court in 1845. New Hampshire has had no other United States Supreme Court Justice who was born in New Hampshire, practiced law in New Hampshire and was appointed from New Hampshire. While sitting on the Supreme Court, he actually campaigned for the Presidency and but for his death in 1851, most likely would have been elected President in 1852, that position going to his former clerk, Franklin Pierce. The prime focus of the talk will not be Woodbury’s Judicial career, but rather his political career. How he became Governor; Speaker of the New Hampshire General Court; Untied States Senator; United States Secretary of the Navy; United States Secretary of the Treasury; a return to the United States Senate and then an appointment to the United States Supreme Court. About the Presenter Athenaeum Proprietor John P. McGee Jr. was born and brought up in Portsmouth. He is most commonly known today as Jack. He attended college at Yale University and received his BA in Economics. Following college, he married his high school sweetheart, Diane O’Leary, also of Portsmouth. He went to law school at the College of William and Mary, obtaining his J.D. degree in 1975. Jack has always been interested in Portsmouth history as well as history in general. He became a member of the Portsmouth Historical Society at the age of 12 and at one time or another has been a member of all historical societies in Portsmouth save one (The Colonial Dames). He was a long-time officer of the Portsmouth Athenaeum as well as President. He has been Director of the Wentworth Gardner Tobias Lear Houses Association and on the finance committee of Strawberry Banke. He currently practices law in Portsmouth, under the firm name of Flynn & McGee, P.A. and he is a member of various Bar groups including the New Hampshire Bar Association and is also a member of the United State Supreme Court Bar. He has also argued many cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court and frequently appears before other Courts as well. When he was young, he’d often play with friends at a house across the street from the Levi Woodbury Mansion. By that point, the mansion was in a state of great disrepair and looked like something out of “Dark Shadows”, unfortunately torn down in 1960. While a sophomore at College, he read Arthur Schlesinger’s The Age of Jackson and could not believe how important Levi Woodbury was in that period. As a third-year law student he did a major paper on Levi Woodbury and since that time he has frequently lectured on him and the times in which he lived. Contact: Nicole Cloutier 603-766-1725 pmvassiliev@cityofportsmouth.com See more details •	23	24	25	26
27 The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival September 27, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA CANCELED/POSTPONED. We will alert you of a possible make up date for this event. Stay safe. The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival will feature cameo concerts in the Athenaeum Reading Room from 1 to 5 p.m. See more details •	28	29	30

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Flatbread Pizza Fundraiser
Flatbread Pizza Fundraiser

September 8, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Flatbread Company, 138 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

This Tuesday, we hope you are hungry for history! For every pizza sold between 5 and 9 p.m., Portsmouth Flatbread will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Athenaeum and the new Douglas Armsden photograph collection.

Dine in, take out or delivery! The more pizza you buy (and eat), the more you support the Athenaeum. It's a win-win! Please make sure to tell your friends and family, too.

Thank you for your support!

If you are unable to attend and wish to support the Armsden Photographic Project, click here.

See more details

Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum with Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum with Joseph S. Nye Jr.

September 13, 2020 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum welcomes Joseph S. Nye Jr., author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump (2020). The program via Zoom, recognizes the 115th anniversary of the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty on September 5, 1905. The program is free and open to the public. To register, click here.

The Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum was founded in 1994 to explore diplomatic themes “in the spirit of The Portsmouth Peace Treaty.” Since then, the Forum has hosted senior diplomats including Ambassadors Dennis Ross, Samantha Power, National Security Council member Fiona Hill and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

See more details

Online Talk: The Life, Times and Political Career of Levi Woodbury
Online Talk: The Life, Times and Political Career of Levi Woodbury

September 22, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Online

This program is co-hosted with the Portsmouth Public Library.

Registration is required. The Zoom link will be sent the week of the event.

About the talk

Levi Woodbury gained fame as both a Judge and a Politician. As a Judge, he was one of the youngest men, if not youngest, ever to be appointed to New Hampshire’s highest Court in 1816. Following his service on New Hampshire’s Court, he spent many years in politics until he was named by President Polk to the United States Supreme Court in 1845. New Hampshire has had no other United States Supreme Court Justice who was born in New Hampshire, practiced law in New Hampshire and was appointed from New Hampshire. While sitting on the Supreme Court, he actually campaigned for the Presidency and but for his death in 1851, most likely would have been elected President in 1852, that position going to his former clerk, Franklin Pierce.
The prime focus of the talk will not be Woodbury’s Judicial career, but rather his political career. How he became Governor; Speaker of the New Hampshire General Court; Untied States Senator; United States Secretary of the Navy; United States Secretary of the Treasury; a return to the United States Senate and then an appointment to the United States Supreme Court.

About the Presenter

Athenaeum Proprietor John P. McGee Jr. was born and brought up in Portsmouth. He is most commonly known today as Jack. He attended college at Yale University and received his BA in Economics. Following college, he married his high school sweetheart, Diane O’Leary, also of Portsmouth. He went to law school at the College of William and Mary, obtaining his J.D. degree in 1975.

Jack has always been interested in Portsmouth history as well as history in general. He became a member of the Portsmouth Historical Society at the age of 12 and at one time or another has been a member of all historical societies in Portsmouth save one (The Colonial Dames). He was a long-time officer of the Portsmouth Athenaeum as well as President. He has been Director of the Wentworth Gardner Tobias Lear Houses Association and on the finance committee of Strawberry Banke.

He currently practices law in Portsmouth, under the firm name of Flynn & McGee, P.A. and he is a member of various Bar groups including the New Hampshire Bar Association and is also a member of the United State Supreme Court Bar. He has also argued many cases before the New Hampshire Supreme Court and frequently appears before other Courts as well.

When he was young, he’d often play with friends at a house across the street from the Levi Woodbury Mansion. By that point, the mansion was in a state of great disrepair and looked like something out of “Dark Shadows”, unfortunately torn down in 1960. While a sophomore at College, he read Arthur Schlesinger’s The Age of Jackson and could not believe how important Levi Woodbury was in that period. As a third-year law student he did a major paper on Levi Woodbury and since that time he has frequently lectured on him and the times in which he lived.

Contact: Nicole Cloutier 603-766-1725 pmvassiliev@cityofportsmouth.com

See more details

The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival
The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival

September 27, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

**CANCELED/POSTPONED. We will alert you of a possible make up date for this event. Stay safe.**

The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival will feature cameo concerts in the Athenaeum Reading Room from 1 to 5 p.m.

See more details

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