New Books April 2018
April has been a bit chilly. Time to warm up your reading shelf and your minds with the latest books added to the Athenaeum! Click on the link below: April New Books 2018The Spring Newsletter Is Here!
The Athenaeum Spring 2018 newsletter was sent out a few weeks ago. If you didn’t receive the latest newsletter, here it is: Spring 2018 To receive the newsletter in the mail, please consider becoming a member of the Portsmouth Athenaeum. The newsletter is filled...Flying for America: Granite State Airmen and the War in the Air
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 7 p.m. Research Library The 2018 Program Series: “Remembering the Great War, Home and Abroad” continues as Byron Champlin examines “Flying for America: Granite State Airmen and the War in the Air.” Entering the First World War woefully...April Art ‘Round Town
Friday, April 6, 2018 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Stop by the Athenaeum during this month’s Art ‘Round Town and discover the new exhibit “What Hawthorne Read.” Guest Curator Elaine von Bruns explores the circulation records and the hundreds of...An Evening with Best-Selling Author William Deresiewicz
Monday, April 9, 2018 7:00 p.m. Mr. Deresiewicz will speak on the value of a broad college experience as opposed to over specialization and too much emphasis on career preparation. He will also speak to the importance of students developing passions and...Tom Carnicelli Poetry Reading and Book Signing
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 7:00 p.m. First-Floor Reading Room Local author Tom Carnicelli reads from his new book Older Guy in the Reading Room. Copies of Tom’s book will be available for purchase. Reservation required. Please call 603-431-2538. Click here...On This Date: 100 Years Ago
The Portsmouth Bridge (also known as the Pile Bridge) was a wooden trestle bridge that carried both highway and railroad traffic across the Piscataqua River from Noble’s Island to Kittery, Maine, in the vicinity of the old/new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge. ...FULL! Atlantic Heights, Portsmouth’s 1918 ’War Village’
The upcoming talk “Atlantic Heights, Portsmouth’s 1918 ‘War Village'” by Richard Candee is now full, and we are no longer accepting names to the waiting list. Please consider signing up for our weekly e-blast to ensure you are not left off the...Hawthorne Exhibit Opening Reception!
Friday, March 16, 2018 5:00-7:00 p.m. Third-Floor Randall Gallery Come to the opening reception for What Hawthorne Read, a traveling exhibit from the Salem Athenaeum in Salem, MA. Curator Elaine von Bruns explores the circulation records and the hundreds of books...Events Calendar
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