by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 5, 2020 | Announcements
Due to the pandemic this year, there will be no Memorial Concert for Proprietors who passed during 2019. To celebrate their lives, Performance Committee Chairman Bill Wieting assembled a pictorial and written tribute. “Instead of reading the obituaries of our...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 17, 2020 | Announcements, Photographs
By Keeper Tom Hardiman Recently Sherry Wood wrote an article about how the Vaughan Street Urban Renewal Project removed neighborhoods and rerouted streets to create the Bridge Street parking lot. While some Portsmouth vistas have been altered suddenly and...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 14, 2020 | Announcements, Events
ONLINE LOCAL HISTORY TALK The Life, Times and Political Career of Levi Woodbury with John P. McGee Tuesday September 22 7 – 8:30 PM Note: This program was previously scheduled for September 16 as part of the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s “2020 Program...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 2, 2020 | Announcements, Library
Review by Librarian Robin Silva A book rarely surprises me, but this one did, delightfully. Why Fish Don’t exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller is not quite a biography, author memoir, science book, or self-help book, but a little...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 31, 2020 | Announcements, Library
This season, the Athenaeum added new books you could add to your late summer and fall reading lists. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: August New Books 2020 Not a Proprietor or...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 27, 2020 | Announcements, Manuscripts
By Archivist Susan Kindstedt Each collection at the Athenaeum holds the potential to tell many stories. One such collection arrived at the Athenaeum in 2019 during the exhibit “By the Bottle or the Barrel: 400 Years of Brewing in Portsmouth.” The gift of a...
