The latest newsletter is here! The Athenaeum’s Autumn Newsletter will be in mailboxes soon. Get a sneak peek at a February 2024 exhibit offering fresh insights on the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Also, savor the Gilly’s hotdog cart experience in Seen on Social Media. Jump aboard the Christian Radich for a look at how filmmaker Louis de Rochemont Jr. of Newington created the 1957 documentary Windjammer. Dick Adams’ Arcana details how joiner George Pendexter used hand tools to craft the breathtaking space between the Athenaeum’s 3rd and 4th floors in 1861. And then there’s the holiday lineup…

Thank you to newsletter editor Sherry Wood and designer Tom Lynch as well as contributing writers.

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