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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...

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...

April 2025: Library Appreciation Month

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Apr 9, 2025 | Announcements, Library

By Research Librarian Jessica McClain The American Library Association sponsored the first National Library Week in 1958, and we continue to recognize and celebrate the role of libraries and librarians in our communities during the first full week of April each year....

New Books in March

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 23, 2025 | Announcements, Library

It’s spring! Time for your reading lists to bloom with the new books now available in the library. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library. March New Books Not a Proprietor or a Subscriber? Find...