by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 14, 2024 | Announcements, Events, Photographs
Every election year brings challenges, surprises and some stand-out personalities. The 2024 Athenæum Lecture Series focuses in on electoral issues and people of importance to the electoral process, including the voter. As first in the nation, New Hampshire’s...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 8, 2024 | Events
Thursday, March 28, 2024 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library The personal stories and work of some scientists, and a surgeon, who left their lives behind and contributed important work in adopted countries during a most turbulent period. As a consequence, continental...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 30, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library “….in all Joshua Sow’d about 1½ Bu. & ½ peck flax Seed.” Samuel Lane, Almanack, May I, 1769 The history of flax and linen—its cultivation, production, sale, and trade–is an...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 17, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library American identity has always been shaped by its relationship with the wider world. At the moment of its independence in 1783, the new nation was a poor and powerless state trying to survive in a...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 8, 2023 | Announcements, Events
November 30, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library Why do we know so little about David and Amias Thompson of Plymouth, England? And why is the little we know so often wrong? Our first European couple “settled” at Rye, NH in 1623. Within five years the Thompsons...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 2, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom This year’s series concludes on November 15 when Rodney Rowland presents Water Has a Memory: Sea Level Rise, Our Past, Our Future. Strawbery Banke Museum is confronting the impacts of and...
