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...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 17, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Keeper Tom Hardiman Recently Sherry Wood wrote an article about how the Vaughan Street Urban Renewal Project removed neighborhoods and rerouted streets to create the Bridge Street parking lot. While some Portsmouth vistas have been altered suddenly and...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 14, 2020 | Announcements, Events
ONLINE LOCAL HISTORY TALK The Life, Times and Political Career of Levi Woodbury with John P. McGee Tuesday September 22 7 – 8:30 PM Note: This program was previously scheduled for September 16 as part of the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s “2020 Program...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 2, 2020 | Announcements, Library
Review by Librarian Robin Silva A book rarely surprises me, but this one did, delightfully. Why Fish Don’t exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller is not quite a biography, author memoir, science book, or self-help book, but a little...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 31, 2020 | Announcements, Library
This season, the Athenaeum added new books you could add to your late summer and fall reading lists. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: August New Books 2020 Not a Proprietor or...
