by Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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 Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 5, 2020 | Announcements
Due to the pandemic this year, there will be no Memorial Concert for Proprietors who passed during 2019. To celebrate their lives, Performance Committee Chairman Bill Wieting assembled a pictorial and written tribute. “Instead of reading the obituaries of our...
