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Twilight Tour - August 8, 2025 - 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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5:00 PM - Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth"

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5:30 PM - 2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

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3:00 PM - ArtsAthenaeum 2025 Poetry Reading with Oliver de la Paz

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5:30 PM - 2025 Lecture Series: “A Goodly Place: The Construction and Character of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion” offered by John Rule and Adi Rule

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5:30 PM - Lawfare in the age of Lincoln: From the battlefield to the court room, Fitz John Porter's long winter of injustice

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5:30 PM - 2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine and the Claims of Belonging"

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5:00 PM - Memorial Concert with Organist Geoffrey Wieting

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Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth"

Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth"

May 2, 2025

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Art Round Town
Exhibit Events

Art 'Round Town, Exhibits, Randall Gallery, The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth

Please join us during Art 'Round Town and see our latest exhibit, “The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth," curated by Proprietor Judy Groppa in the Randall Gallery. [...]

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1805 Building Tour

1805 Building Tour

May 3, 2025

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Building Tours

Building Tours, Library Room, Membership Libraries, Sawtelle Reading Room

Join us for a tour of our Sawtelle Reading Room and the historic Library Room. Tours are at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. [...]

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May 7, 2025

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Franklin Club

Franklin Club, Sawtelle Reading Room

The Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, was a club for mutual improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The Leather [...]

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1805 Building Tour

1805 Building Tour

May 10, 2025

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Building Tours

Building Tours, Library Room, Membership Libraries, Sawtelle Reading Room

Join us for a tour of our Sawtelle Reading Room and the historic Library Room. Tours are at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. [...]

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2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

May 16, 2025

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Current Events Series
Discussions

2025 Current Events Series, Brooke Harrington, Finance, Shaw Research Library

In collaboration with the World Affairs Council of New Hampshire, the Portsmouth Athenaeum Current Events Lecture Series presents the "Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New [...]

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ArtsAthenaeum 2025 Poetry Reading with Oliver de la Paz

ArtsAthenaeum 2025 Poetry Reading with Oliver de la Paz

May 18, 2025

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Portsmouth Athenaeum

ArtsAthenaeum Performance Series
Performance & Concert Series

ArtsAthenaeum Performance Series 2025, Concerts, Poetry Readings, Shaw Research Library

The Portsmouth Athenaeum is delighted to welcome Oliver de la Paz, celebrated poet and educator, for a special reading on Sunday, May 18, at 3:00 [...]

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2025 Lecture Series: “A Goodly Place: The Construction and Character of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion” offered by John Rule and Adi Rule

2025 Lecture Series: “A Goodly Place: The Construction and Character of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion” offered by John Rule and Adi Rule

May 21, 2025

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

$0.00 - $25.00

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Discussions
Lecture Series

2025 Lecture Series: Beauty on the Seacoast and Beyond, Adi Rule, Architecture and Gardens, Art Architecture and Gardens, John Rule, Shaw Research Library, Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion

NOTE: THIS PROGRAM IS NEARLY FULL. Overlooking the Piscataqua River’s back channel at Little Harbor sits one of Portsmouth’s hidden gems, the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion. Home [...]

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Lawfare in the age of Lincoln: From the battlefield to the court room, Fitz John Porter's long winter of injustice

Lawfare in the age of Lincoln: From the battlefield to the court room, Fitz John Porter's long winter of injustice

May 22, 2025

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

$0.00

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Book Talks
Discussions

A talk with esteemed historian William Marvel, author of Radical Sacrifice, The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter. The program will be on the [...]

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2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine and the Claims of Belonging"

2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine and the Claims of Belonging"

May 23, 2025

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

$0.00 - $25.00

Portsmouth Athenaeum

Current Events Series
Discussions

2025 Current Events Series, Israel, Linda Dittmar, Palestine, Shaw Research Library

NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, April 24, and it is now rescheduled for Friday, May 23. It is also now FREE for [...]

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Memorial Concert with Organist Geoffrey Wieting

Memorial Concert with Organist Geoffrey Wieting

May 29, 2025

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

St. John's Episcopal Church

Members Events
Performance & Concert Series

Concerts, Geoffrey Wieting, Memorial Concert, Proprietors, St. John's Church

Join us on Thursday, May 29, at 5:00 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth for the annual Memorial Concert, featuring renowned organist Geoffrey [...]

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Events on May 2, 2025

Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth"

Art 'Round Town for the exhibit "The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth"

2 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 3, 2025

1805 Building Tour

1805 Building Tour

3 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 7, 2025

7 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 10, 2025

1805 Building Tour

1805 Building Tour

10 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 16, 2025

2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Offshore Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

16 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 18, 2025

ArtsAthenaeum 2025 Poetry Reading with Oliver de la Paz

ArtsAthenaeum 2025 Poetry Reading with Oliver de la Paz

18 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 21, 2025

2025 Lecture Series: “A Goodly Place: The Construction and Character of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion” offered by John Rule and Adi Rule

2025 Lecture Series: “A Goodly Place: The Construction and Character of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion” offered by John Rule and Adi Rule

21 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 22, 2025

Lawfare in the age of Lincoln: From the battlefield to the court room, Fitz John Porter's long winter of injustice

Lawfare in the age of Lincoln: From the battlefield to the court room, Fitz John Porter's long winter of injustice

22 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 23, 2025

2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine and the Claims of Belonging"

2025 Current Events Lecture Series: "Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine and the Claims of Belonging"

23 May 25

Portsmouth

Events on May 29, 2025

Memorial Concert with Organist Geoffrey Wieting

Memorial Concert with Organist Geoffrey Wieting

29 May 25

Portsmouth

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