Announcements | Portsmouth Athenaeum

Great Bay Sailor Concert

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Dec 7, 2018 | Announcements, Performance

Monday, December 17, 2018 7 p.m. Reading Room Portsmouth’s own Great Bay Sailor returns to the Athenaeum for a musical tribute to the Christmas season. With a repertoire whose roots sink deep in the folk songs of the British Isles, Canada and Appalachia, Great...

Book Signing & Talk with Kimberly Alexander

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 29, 2018 | Announcements, Events

Sunday, December 9, 2018 3:00 p.m. Reading Room Athenaeum Proprietor Kimberly Alexander discusses her new book Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era, an expansive look at the important but overlooked role shoes played in society, commerce, and...

Concert by Noree Trio

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 16, 2018 | Announcements, Performance

Sunday, December 2, 2018 3 p.m. Reading Room The performance committee of the Athenaeum would like to invite all members to a winter concert in the Sawtelle Reading Room on Sunday December 2 at 3:00 pm. Join Noree Chamber Soloists’ winter presentation of two...

October New Books

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 15, 2018 | Announcements, Library

Fall into a good book! Proprietors and Subscribers, the weather has cooled, and the holiday to-do lists are upon us. Maybe it’s time to curl up under a cozy blanket and escape into a good book. We can help with that. Here are the new books now available in the...

Lecture Series: Poetry & the Great War

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 5, 2018 | Announcements, Events

Sunday, November 11, 2018 4:00 p.m. Third-floor Research Library The 2018 Program Series: “Remembering the Great War, Home and Abroad” concludes as Douglas Aykroyd leads the program, “Poetry of the Great War.” One hundred years ago, on the eleventh day of the...