by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 15, 2022 | Announcements, Events, Performance
The Portsmouth Athenaeum presents this annual series of chamber music concerts held in historic properties around Portsmouth. This year, the public is invited to attend four chamber concerts. SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 3 p.m. NOREE CHAMBER SOLOISTS at Kittery Dance Hall, 7...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 6, 2022 | Announcements, Library
The new book list is here! Here are some titles to add to your summer reading. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: June New Books Not a Proprietor or a Subscriber? Find out how you can...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 1, 2022 | Announcements, Manuscripts
Katy Sternberger, Archivist Continued from “Prevent the Spread: A History of Smallpox Inoculation in Eighteenth-Century Portsmouth.” In 1782 amid a smallpox epidemic, doctors Joshua Brackett, Ammi Ruhamah Cutter, Hall Jackson, and John Jackson built a hospital on...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 30, 2022 | Announcements
By Sherry Wood More than a third of the authors in A History of Portsmouth NH in 101 Objects are members of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. The book is “intended as a record of what we value in 2023 on the 400th anniversary of Portsmouth’s settlement, a resource for...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 24, 2022 | Announcements, Manuscripts
Katy Sternberger, Archivist After more than two years of living with the COVID-19 pandemic, we now have a unique sense of what it was like to witness pandemics past—quarantining, vaccine hesitancy, and reports of case numbers in the news are not novel. We just need to...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 9, 2022 | Announcements, Events
Sunday, June 12, 2022 3 p.m. St. John’s Church, Chapel Street Please join us for the upcoming memorial concert honoring Athenaeum Proprietors who passed in 2021, featuring acclaimed cellist Sebastian Baverstam [pictured above]. The public is invited to attend...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 2, 2022 | Announcements, Events
Review by Proprietor Ed Caylor A friend recently encouraged me to give Mona Passage a try. I was hesitant because I thought the book might be a CSI tale, or a shoot ‘em up military thriller. Still, based on the encouragement, I sat down to read the book in front of a...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 27, 2022 | Announcements, Exhibits
The timing of “Standing Together: Seacoast LGBTQ+ Social and Support Groups” couldn’t be better, according to Tom Kaufhold, who is curating the exhibit opening June 3 in the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s Randall Gallery. “We exist, we have...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 25, 2022 | Announcements, Events
IN-PERSON EVENT Thomas “Buddy” Bardenwerper Mona Passage Thursday, June 9, 2022 5:30 p.m. Sawtelle Reading Room (first floor of 1805 Building) On a moonless night, two vessels converge in the Mona Passage, a stretch of ocean separating Hispaniola...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 6, 2022 | Announcements, Events
Portsmouth Athenaeum 2022 Lecture Series Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 The territory of coastal New Hampshire, first inhabited by the Abenaki and other Algonquian languages-speaking nations, was first explored and written about by Martin Pring in 1603....
