August 2025: Cool Off With Some Polar Adventures
By Research Librarian Jessica Zaricki It’s a hot and humid summer in the Seacoast Region, which led us to seek out some creative ways of beating the heat. Did you know that the Portsmouth Athenaeum has one of the strongest collections of polar materials on the US East...July 2025: Get Outside and Explore!
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...June 2025: National Oceans Month–Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us
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
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 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...Events Calendar
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