February New Books

Seeding your spring book list!

Proprietors and Subscribers, new books have been planted at the Athenaeum.

Click on the link below to discover the new books now available in the library:

February New Books 2019

	May 2023
	1	2	3	4	5 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. •	6 Reading Room Tour Reading Room Tour May 6, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested. •
7	8	9	10	11 Reading Room Tour Reading Room Tour May 11, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested. •	12 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. •	13 Reading Room Tour Reading Room Tour May 13, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested. •
14	15	16	17 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. •	18	19	20 Reading Room Tour Reading Room Tour May 20, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Tour the historic first-floor Reading Room. Donations suggested. •
21 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. •	22	23	24	25 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. • •	26	27
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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.

Reading Room Tour
Reading Room Tour

May 6, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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

Reading Room Tour
Reading Room Tour

May 11, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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

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.

Reading Room Tour
Reading Room Tour

May 13, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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

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.

Reading Room Tour
Reading Room Tour

May 20, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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

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.

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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