by Athenaeum Photographs | Mar 23, 2021 | Announcements, Events
ZOOM BOOK TALK Heart of a Tiger: Growing up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb Herschel Cobb Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:30 PM Author Herschel Cobb will give a virtual book talk about his recent work: Heart of a Tiger: Growing up with My Grandfather, Ty Cobb. The book tells...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Mar 12, 2021 | Announcements, Library, Photographs
By Research Librarian Katy Sternberger Evidently, Doris Moore was known for asking questions in history class. Her “talent” was recognized in the ninth grade “class will” published in the Portsmouth Herald when she graduated from Portsmouth Junior High School...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Mar 11, 2021 | Announcements
Heading into the homestretch of winter, we know that March will no doubt offer up a few snowstorms and ample opportunity to curl up with a good book…or two…or three… Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Feb 25, 2021 | Announcements, Events
ZOOM DISCUSSION Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine CHARLES VIDICH March 11, 2021 5:30 PM The Portsmouth Athenaeum and the Membership Libraries Group present a discussion with Charles Vidich, the author of Germs at Bay: Politics,...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Jan 28, 2021 | Announcements, Library
New Year. New Books. Here is the list of the new books added to the library last month. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: December New Books 2020 Not a Proprietor or a...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Nov 19, 2020 | Announcements, Events
ZOOM BOOK TALK The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States’ First Forgotten Celebrity CAROLYN EASTMAN December 9, 2020 7 PM The Portsmouth Athenaeum and the Membership Libraries Group present Carolyn Eastman, Associate Professor in the History...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Nov 7, 2020 | Announcements, Library
Halloween is over, but the Athenaeum has some treats in the Library with the latest list of new books. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the what’s new in the library: October New Books 2020 Not a Proprietor or a...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Nov 6, 2020 | Announcements, Events
ZOOM BOOK DISCUSSION REMINDER Thoreau, The Kid, and Mr. Lou: Book Notes of a Foreign Correspondent LOU SALOME This Tuesday, November 10, 2020 7 PM Athenaeum Proprietor Lou Salome lived for a year in the New Hampshire woods where he wrote the acclaimed Violence, Veils...
by Athenaeum Photographs | Oct 28, 2020 | Announcements
This week, the latest Athenaeum newsletter will be arriving in the mail to our members. A very special thank you to Proprietors Sherry Wood, editor, and Susan Hamilton, designer as well as all the contributing writers. Click the button to read the digital version....
by Athenaeum Photographs | Oct 14, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Photographic Collections Manager James Smith For nearly 50 years, Bartolomeo “Bartolo” Guiducci (1892-1963) and his wife Caterina Mansini (1885-1972) ran a grocery store in the heart of Portsmouth’s old North End, and yet little is known about the couple...
