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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...

April New Books

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Apr 17, 2020 | Announcements, Library

This April, while there is a back-order on some new books, we still have added some, mostly by donation, to the library. Proprietors and Subscribers, click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library: April New Books 2020 Share...