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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

The Case Against Sambo

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 23, 2019 | Announcements, Manuscripts

By James Smith, photographic collections manager This past week marked the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans brought to the English colonies. These “20. and odd Negroes” landed at Point Comfort, Virginia, where they were traded for...

“By the Bottle or the Barrel” Exhibit Talks

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 16, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Saturday, Aug. 17, 201911 a.m.Randall Gallery Sandra Rux, co-curator of the exhibit By the Bottle or the Barrel: 400 Years of Brewing in Portsmouth, will give a gallery talk. UPCOMING LECTURES: Thursday, Sept. 5, 20197 p.m.Join both Tad Baker, professor of history at...

PACM Concert: Musicians From A Far Cry

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 23, 2019 | Events, Performance

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 3 p.m.at The Dance Hall, Kittery(two violins, two violas, one cello)Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2019 continues with Musicians From A Far Cry.Six musicians from Boston’s acclaimed string ensemble “A Far Cry” will join us again to perform a...