Announcements | Portsmouth Athenaeum

July 2025: Get Outside and Explore!

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 10, 2025 | Announcements, Library

By Research Librarian Jessica Zaricki This month, we’re focusing on our National Parks here in New England and around the country, as well as the history of those lands, and the people who fought for their conservation. Travel to the Western US might not be in the...

Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music 2025

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 20, 2025 | Announcements, Performance

The Portsmouth Athenaeum presents this annual series of chamber music concerts held in historic venues around Portsmouth. This year, the public is invited to attend the following four chamber concerts: NEAVE TRIO SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 3 p.m. The Dance Hall, Kittery,...

Walking in the Footsteps of a Patriot

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 17, 2025 | Announcements, Exhibits

By Sherry Wood Soon after George Washington was named commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Portsmouth’s Jonathan Mitchel Sewall wrote the words to a song that would be sung in taverns and on battlegrounds during the Revolutionary War. Sewall, the subject...

June 2025: National Oceans Month–Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 5, 2025 | Announcements, Library

By Research Librarian Jessica Zaricki National Oceans Month is a time to highlight the importance of the world’s oceans. In Portsmouth, our history is inextricably linked to the sea. Please join us in taking the opportunity to appreciate, study, and protect this...

New Books in May

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 10, 2025 | Announcements, Library

A budding reading habit this spring? We can help. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library. May New Books Not a Proprietor or a Subscriber? Find out how you can become a member and support the...

May 2025 Book List: April Showers Bring May Flowers!

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 8, 2025 | Announcements, Library

By Research Librarian Jessica McClain This oft-quoted proverb dates back to a 16th century work by English poet and Farmer Thomas Tusser. The lines appear in a sonnet included in the piece “A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie” as “And Aprill his stormes, to be good...