Book Signing & Talk with Kimberly Alexander
Sunday, December 9, 2018 3:00 p.m. Reading Room Athenaeum Proprietor Kimberly Alexander discusses her new book Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era, an expansive look at the important but overlooked role shoes played in society, commerce, and...Concert by Noree Trio
Sunday, December 2, 2018 3 p.m. Reading Room The performance committee of the Athenaeum would like to invite all members to a winter concert in the Sawtelle Reading Room on Sunday December 2 at 3:00 pm. Join Noree Chamber Soloists’ winter presentation of two...October New Books
Fall into a good book! Proprietors and Subscribers, the weather has cooled, and the holiday to-do lists are upon us. Maybe it’s time to curl up under a cozy blanket and escape into a good book. We can help with that. Here are the new books now available in the...Fall 2018 Newsletter
Last week, the Athenaeum Fall 2018 newsletter was sent out. If you didn’t receive the latest newsletter, here it is: FALL 2018 To receive the newsletter in the mail, please consider becoming a member of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. The newsletter is filled with...Lecture Series: Poetry & the Great War
Sunday, November 11, 2018 4:00 p.m. Third-floor Research Library The 2018 Program Series: “Remembering the Great War, Home and Abroad” concludes as Douglas Aykroyd leads the program, “Poetry of the Great War.” One hundred years ago, on the eleventh day of the...Lecture: New England’s Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, 1753-1814)
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 5:30 p.m. Third-floor Research Library Athenaeum Proprietor Dr. Fred Schubert will give an illustrated talk on the life and scientific achievements of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. This talk will emphasize his pivotal scientific...REMINDER: Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra this Sunday!
Sunday Nov. 4, 2018 3:30 p.m. Music Hall, 10 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth The Portsmouth Symphony kicks off its season with a spectacular concert featuring brass in Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, winds in Mozart’s Serenade No. 10 (Gran...Portrait Exhibit Closes Saturday
It’s the final two days to see the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s exhibition Painting Portsmouth’s Notables: 1750-1850. Three new faces joined the notables at the half-way point of the exhibition with a special loan from the Newington Historical Society’s Old...Emily Daggett Smith, Violin & Constantine Finehouse, Piano
Sunday, October 28, 2018 3:00 p.m. New Castle Congregational Church, 65 Main St, New Castle, NH New York-based violinist Emily Daggett Smith, a favorite of Portsmouth audiences, rejoins the Historic Portsmouth Chamber Music 2018 Series this season with pianist...Events Calendar
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