by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 18, 2019 | Announcements, Events
Author Kurt Leland presents Celia Thaxter: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gurus Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5:30 p.m. Research Library Join us for a special Halloween presentation of lesser known aspects of the life of Portsmouth’s own nineteenth-century poet and artist,...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 11, 2019 | Announcements, Performance
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 3 p.m. at The Dance Hall, Kittery (piano, violin, cello) This fall, the Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2019 welcomes the return of Neave Trio, a program of piano trios by four distinguished female composers, spanning the Romantic era through...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 4, 2019 | Announcements, Photographs
By James Smith, Photographic Collections Manager This past Sunday, we shared the above image on social media of the Portsmouth Junior High band, all of whom were unidentified, at the Whipple School on the corner of Summer and State streets, c.1920. [PS2659] On...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 3, 2019 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 20195:30 p.m.Research Library Talented playwrights, actors and puppeteers, Marguerite Matthews & Gregory Gathers have created over fifty original works that have been presented both at their venue, Pontine Theatre, and in hundreds of...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 10, 2019 | Announcements, Performance
SUNDAY, SEPT. 22, 3 p.m.at the North Church of Portsmouth (2 Congress St.)(two violins, viola, cello)This September, the Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2019 invites you to listen to the Omer String Quartet.The Omer Quartet received rave reviews from New York Times...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 10, 2019 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 20195:30 p.m.Research Library After a summer break, the program series resumes on September 18. Photographer and poetic writer, Alexandra de Steiguer, will share her photographs and prose. For over 20 years, she has moved out to the Isles of...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 10, 2019 | Announcements, Library
A little late summer reading with the August books now in the Athenaeum! Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: August New Books 2019
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 23, 2019 | Announcements, Manuscripts
By James Smith, photographic collections manager This past week marked the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans brought to the English colonies. These “20. and odd Negroes” landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, where they were traded for...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 16, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits
Saturday, Aug. 17, 201911 a.m.Randall Gallery Sandra Rux, co-curator of the exhibit By the Bottle or the Barrel: 400 Years of Brewing in Portsmouth, will give a gallery talk. UPCOMING LECTURES: Thursday, Sept. 5, 20197 p.m.Join both Tad Baker, professor of history at...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 23, 2019 | Events, Performance
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 3 p.m.at The Dance Hall, Kittery(two violins, two violas, one cello)Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2019 continues with Musicians From A Far Cry.Six musicians from Boston’s acclaimed string ensemble “A Far Cry” will join us again to perform a...
