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2019 Program Series: John Perrault

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 8, 2019 | Announcements, Events

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 5:30 p.m. Research Library The 2019 Program Series Scripting the Seacoast with Words, Beauty, Learning and Laughter concludes with John Perrault, balladeer, poet, lawyer and teacher. As a talented musician and former Poet Laureate of...

Armsden Index Transcribe-a-thon!

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 1, 2019 | Announcements, Events

Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Research Library In 2018, the Athenaeum received the photographic collection of prolific, local photographer Douglas J. Armsden (1918-2009). Armsden’s portfolio captured the essence of the mid-20th century Seacoast region of...

Celia Thaxter: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gurus

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 18, 2019 | Announcements, Events

Author Kurt Leland presents Celia Thaxter: Ghosts, Ghouls, and Gurus Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5:30 p.m. Research Library Join us for a special Halloween presentation of lesser known aspects of the life of Portsmouth’s own nineteenth-century poet and artist,...

PACM: Neave Trio

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 11, 2019 | Announcements, Performance

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 3 p.m. at The Dance Hall, Kittery (piano, violin, cello) This fall, the Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2019 welcomes the return of Neave Trio, a program of piano trios by four distinguished female composers, spanning the Romantic era through...

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...