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...
