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Inspiring Update from the Photograph Collection

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 4, 2019 | Announcements, Photographs

By James Smith, Photographic Collections Manager This past Sunday, we shared the above image on social media of the Portsmouth Junior High band, all of whom were unidentified, at the Whipple School on the corner of Summer and State streets, c.1920. [PS2659] On...

2019 Program Series: Pontine Movement Theatre

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 3, 2019 | Announcements, Events

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 20195:30 p.m.Research Library Talented playwrights, actors and puppeteers, Marguerite Matthews & Gregory Gathers have created over fifty original works that have been presented both at their venue, Pontine Theatre, and in hundreds of...

PACM: Omer String Quartet

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 10, 2019 | Announcements, Performance

SUNDAY, SEPT. 22, 3 p.m.at the North Church of Portsmouth (2 Congress St.)(two violins, viola, cello)This September, the Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2019 invites you to listen to the Omer String Quartet.The Omer Quartet received rave reviews from New York Times...

2019 Program Series: Alexandra de Steiguer

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 10, 2019 | Announcements, Events

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 20195:30 p.m.Research Library After a summer break, the program series resumes on September 18. Photographer and poetic writer, Alexandra de Steiguer, will share her photographs and prose. For over 20 years, she has moved out to the Isles of...

August New Books

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 10, 2019 | Announcements, Library

A little late summer reading with the August books now in the Athenaeum! Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: August New Books 2019