by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 26, 2023 | Announcements, Events, Performance
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 3 p.m. RASA STRING QUARTET at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel Street, Portsmouth Currently in residence at Philips Exeter, Boston-based Rasa String Quartet violinists Maura Shawn Scanlin and Kiyoshi Hayashi, violist Emma Powell, and...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 21, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library A presentation and book signing by Proprietor Nancy R. Hammond, whose new book, The Life and Times of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall, 1748-1808, Poet – Lawyer – Patriot, resurrects a forgotten Portsmouth...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 20, 2023 | Announcements, Events, Performance
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 3 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel Street, Portsmouth The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music series presents Noree Chamber Soloists. A frequent visitor to Portsmouth, NH, Noree Chamber Soloists is a NY-based chamber music...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 13, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom The Athenaeum lecture series, Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 Part 2, continues with with Ed Caylor’s talk, Trading on the Gundalow. For more than 200 years, gundalows sparked the...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 13, 2023 | Announcements, Library
The new book list is here! We’re heading into autumn, so it’s time to gather up a few new books. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the button below to discover the new books now available in the library. August New Books Not a Proprietor or a...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 1, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Friday, Sept. 15, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library Athenaeum member, Portsmouth native, and foreign policy writer Gil Barndollar will offer his thoughts on the war in Ukraine, tensions with China, and international security. Following Gil’s talk, there will...