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May 14, 2017

Recent News

  • Author Tom Curren’s “All Join Hands” Book Talk with Proprietor Peter Randall
  • 2023 Lecture Series: An Abundance of Cod: Fueling the New World with Ann Beattie
  • Athenaeum Memorial Concert
  • Spring 2023 Newsletter
  • 2023 Lecture Series: The Life, Near-Death, and Revival of Wood Island Station with Sam Reid

Events Calendar

May 2023

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  • Art 'Round Town

    Art 'Round Town

    May 5, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Art ‘Round Town reception for the exhibit “The Wentworth Takeover" in the Randall Gallery.

     

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  • Reading Room Tour

    Reading Room Tour

    May 6, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested.

     

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  • Reading Room Tour

    Reading Room Tour

    May 11, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested.

     

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  • Memorial Concert

    Memorial Concert

    May 12, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
    Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

    Join us for our Memorial Concert to remember Athenaeum Proprietors who passed in 2022; performed by Mike Blair and Jim Prendergast in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room.

     

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  • Reading Room Tour

    Reading Room Tour

    May 13, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested.

     

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  • 2023 LECTURE SERIES: An Abundance of Cod: Fueling the New World

    2023 LECTURE SERIES: An Abundance of Cod: Fueling the New World

    May 17, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

    The Athenaeum lecture series, “Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 Part 2,” continues with An Abundance of Cod:  Fueling the New World. Ann Beattie will take you a step back in time to the early 17th century when Europeans began to sail to the New World and carry home tales of wondrous riches in the form of the obliging cod fish.
     
    Lecture is held in the third-floor Shaw Research Library and via Zoom.
     
    Each program begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Shaw Research Library of the Portsmouth Athenaeum at 9 Market Square in Portsmouth, NH (unless otherwise noted). Reservations for each program are required as seating is limited. Please call (603) 431-2538 to reserve. If unable to keep a reservation, please call again to release the seat for someone else.

    Attendance at programs is free for Athenaeum Proprietors, Subscribers and Friends. Guests and members of the public are welcome to attend the entire series by becoming a Friend of the Athenaeum for as little as $25 per year, payable at the door. Admission to an individual program is $10.

    Every presenter in this year's lecture series is a Proprietor of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, suggesting the breadth of knowledge and interest in its dissemination that characterizes Athenaeum members. Each lecturer looks forward to engaging our audience with their knowledge. 

     

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  • Reading Room Tour

    Reading Room Tour

    May 20, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested.

     

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  • Celebrating the NHHS Bicentennial

    Celebrating the NHHS Bicentennial

    May 21, 2023 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

    A talk and reception celebratingthe bicentennial of the New Hampshire Historical Society [NHHS], which traces its ownorigins back to the Portsmouth celebration of the bicentennial of New Hampshirein May of 1823. Trace the history of one of New England’s oldest historicalorganizations, and meet some of the dynamic people keeping it alive in the 21stcentury. 
     
    The event begins at 4:30 in the third-floor Shaw Research Library.

     

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  • Reading Room Tour

    Reading Room Tour

    May 25, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

    Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested.

     

  • Author Tom Curren's "All Join Hands" with Proprietor Peter Randall

    Author Tom Curren's "All Join Hands" with Proprietor Peter Randall

    May 25, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:15 pm
    Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

    Join Peter Randall, publisher and photographer, in conversation with author Tom Curren about his new book All Join Hands: Dudley Laufman & the New England Country Dance Tradition. All Join Hands is a memoir of Dudley Laufman who received the highest honor for traditional artists, the National Heritage  Fellowship, in 2009. 
     
    The program and book signing begins at 5:30 p.m. in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room. 

    UPDATE, due to limited seating, reservations are required. Please call (603) 431-2538 to RSVP.

     

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