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DO YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING ON AMAZON – AND AMAZON WILL GIVE TO THE ATHENAEUM. Make your holiday shopping count when Amazon gives a percentage to the Athenaeum. Most of your purchases result in a donation from them to us. It’s easy: Just log into your Amazon...Great Bay Sailor Concert
Monday, December 17, 2018 7 p.m. Reading Room Portsmouth’s own Great Bay Sailor returns to the Athenaeum for a musical tribute to the Christmas season. With a repertoire whose roots sink deep in the folk songs of the British Isles, Canada and Appalachia, Great...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...Events Calendar
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