Athenaeum Memorial Concert
Friday, May 12 5 p.m. Sawtelle Reading Room Join us for our Athenaeum Memorial Concert as we remember Proprietors who passed in 2022. Proprietor Mike Blair, Irish tenor, and Joe Prendergast, well-known guitarist, will perform, and Bill Wieting will present the...Spring 2023 Newsletter
The latest newsletter is here! Find out what’s been happening this spring at the Athenaeum and what’s still to come during Portsmouth’s 400th celebration. Thank you to editor Sherry Wood, designer Tom Lynch, and the contributing writers for creating...2023 Lecture Series: The Life, Near-Death, and Revival of Wood Island Station with Sam Reid
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library Proprietor Sam Reid will give a talk entitled The Life, Near-Death, and Revival of Wood Island Station. The Wood Island Life Saving Station sits on a small island next to the Maine/New Hampshire border...The Wentworth Takeover: How One Family Dominated Portsmouth and New Hampshire 1715-1775
Exhibit Curator Sandra Rux said that after arriving in New Hampshire in the 1630s, the Wentworth family gradually became more important through the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Friends and adversaries referred to the family as the “Wentworth...Events Calendar
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