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Latest “New Books” List in the Library

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 7, 2020 | Announcements, Library

Halloween is over, but the Athenaeum has some treats in the Library with the latest list of new books. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the what’s new in the library: October New Books 2020 Not a Proprietor or a...

Book Review: Why Fish Don’t Exist

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 2, 2020 | Announcements, Library

Review by Librarian Robin Silva A book rarely surprises me, but this one did, delightfully. Why Fish Don’t exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller is not quite a biography, author memoir, science book, or self-help book, but a little...

August New Books

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 31, 2020 | Announcements, Library

This season, the Athenaeum added new books you could add to your late summer and fall reading lists. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: August New Books 2020 Not a Proprietor or...

Tales from the Stacks: A Swift Deaccession

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 25, 2020 | Announcements, Library, Manuscripts

In the midst of re-numbering the entire library catalog, Librarian Robin Silva has uncovered some interesting history. In October 1907, a book had been discovered in the Athenaeum’s stock room, left there anonymously. Published in 1905, the book was The...

Book Review–In Pursuit of History: A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 28, 2020 | Announcements, Library

Review by Proprietor Gerald W. R. Ward For more than fifty years, the Dietrich American Foundation of Pennsylvania has played an important role in the world of early American art and material culture. Established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr., the collection now...

Book Review: Olive, Again

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 13, 2020 | Announcements, Library

Review by Research Librarian Carolyn Marvin Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout features the return of her prickly character Olive Kittredge from the small town of Crosby, Maine. And we, the reader, are so grateful to Strout and so ready to revisit the many villagers she...