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The non-fiction book discussion group meets on the second Thursday of each month in the Library Room at 11:45 a.m.

Upcoming Titles:

March – The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
April – The Man Who Created the Middle East by Christopher Sykes
May – Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock
June – The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell

Please join us for a fun discussion on any or all of these dates!

	April 2024
	1	2	3 Franklin Club Franklin Club April 3, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA 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 Apron Club's purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs. The Athenaeum's newly formed Franklin Club was created with this mind. Please join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the Sawtelle Reading Room. We loosely follow the list of questions from Ben Franklin’s club, and generally chat and share thoughts about current matters of life and town in a casual manner. The Franklin Club is a great opportunity to bring new members or potential new members who are looking for an opportunity to socialize and get to know other folks that are part of the Athenaeum. •	4 ATHENAEUM CLOSED ATHENAEUM CLOSED April 4, 2024 Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA Due to the weather, the Portsmouth Athenaeum is closed to the public today. Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room April 4, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted. • •	5 Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" April 5, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA Please join us during Art 'Round Town for our current exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" in the third-floor Randall Gallery. •	6
7	8	9 New Members Tea New Members Tea April 9, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA New, prospective, and current members are invited to this in-person tea hosted in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room. •	10	11	12	13 Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room April 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted. •
14	15	16	17 2024 LECTURE SERIES: "An Insider's Take on NH's Presidential Primary" with Thomas Rath 2024 LECTURE SERIES: "An Insider's Take on NH's Presidential Primary" with Thomas Rath April 17, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA On April 17th, Thomas Rath will present An Insider's Take on NH's Presidential Primary. His talk will address what's really important—and what goes on behind the scenes—at New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Presidential primary. It will include anecdotes from his experience as a seasoned participant in and observer of New Hampshire's political scene. Click for more information. •	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25 Great Bay Book Group Discussion with author David W. Moore Great Bay Book Group Discussion with author David W. Moore April 25, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most epic environmental battle in the Seacoast when a small group of passionate people defeated a proposed oil refinery in Great Bay that would have irrevocably changed our region. What can we learn from this story to help us confront today’s environmental threats? Please join the Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper and Great Bay Stewards in partnership with 3S Artspace for a book group discussion at 3S with David W. Moore (author of Small Town, Big Oil - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World-And Won), activists at the center of the story in the 1970s, and those at the forefront of environmental advocacy in our region today. Melissa Paly, the Conservation Law Foundation’s Great Bay Water Keeper and the Great Bay Stewards serves as host for the book discussion and features David Moore, author of Small Town, Big Oil; Athenaeum member Dudley Dudley, former Durham State Representative; Nancy Sandberg, former Chair of Save Our Shores; Meredith Bennett, daughter of Phyliss Bennett, publisher of Publick Occurences; Kalle Matso, Director of Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership; Amanda Gokee, Climate Reporter, Boston Globe; Christina Dubin, Seacoast Climate Action Now and Beyond Plastics; and others TBA. More information here: https://www.3sarts.org/events/287796203898. •	26 ArtsAthenaeum Concert "The Like Minds Ensemble" ArtsAthenaeum Concert "The Like Minds Ensemble" April 26, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music presents an ArtsAtheneaum Concert featuring the UNH-based trio, "The Like Minds Ensemble" with Peggy Vagts, flute; Margaret Herlehy, oboe; and Janet Polk, bassoon. This free concert will be on the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room at the Athenaeum. Space is very limited. To reserve your seat(s), please call (603) 431-2538. •	27
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Franklin Club
Franklin Club

April 3, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

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 Apron Club's purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs.

The Athenaeum's newly formed Franklin Club was created with this mind. Please join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the Sawtelle Reading Room. We loosely follow the list of questions from Ben Franklin’s club, and generally chat and share thoughts about current matters of life and town in a casual manner. The Franklin Club is a great opportunity to bring new members or potential new members who are looking for an opportunity to socialize and get to know other folks that are part of the Athenaeum.

ATHENAEUM CLOSED
ATHENAEUM CLOSED

April 4, 2024
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Due to the weather, the Portsmouth Athenaeum is closed to the public today.
Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room
Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room

April 4, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.

Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020"
Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020"

April 5, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Please join us during Art 'Round Town for our current exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" in the third-floor Randall Gallery.

New Members Tea
New Members Tea

April 9, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

New, prospective, and current members are invited to this in-person tea hosted in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room.

Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room
Tour of Sawtelle Reading Room

April 13, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room in the 1805 building is open for tours. Donations accepted.

2024 LECTURE SERIES: "An Insider's Take on NH's Presidential Primary" with Thomas Rath
2024 LECTURE SERIES: "An Insider's Take on NH's Presidential Primary" with Thomas Rath

April 17, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

On April 17th, Thomas Rath will present An Insider's Take on NH's Presidential Primary. His talk will address what's really important—and what goes on behind the scenes—at New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Presidential primary. It will include anecdotes from his experience as a seasoned participant in and observer of New Hampshire's political scene.

Click for more information.

Great Bay Book Group Discussion with author David W. Moore
Great Bay Book Group Discussion with author David W. Moore

April 25, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most epic environmental battle in the Seacoast when a small group of passionate people defeated a proposed oil refinery in Great Bay that would have irrevocably changed our region. What can we learn from this story to help us confront today’s environmental threats?

Please join the Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper and Great Bay Stewards in partnership with 3S Artspace for a book group discussion at 3S with David W. Moore (author of Small Town, Big Oil - The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World-And Won), activists at the center of the story in the 1970s, and those at the forefront of environmental advocacy in our region today.

Melissa Paly, the Conservation Law Foundation’s Great Bay Water Keeper and the Great Bay Stewards serves as host for the book discussion and features David Moore, author of Small Town, Big Oil; Athenaeum member Dudley Dudley, former Durham State Representative; Nancy Sandberg, former Chair of Save Our Shores; Meredith Bennett, daughter of Phyliss Bennett, publisher of Publick Occurences; Kalle Matso, Director of Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership; Amanda Gokee, Climate Reporter, Boston Globe; Christina Dubin, Seacoast Climate Action Now and Beyond Plastics; and others TBA.

More information here: https://www.3sarts.org/events/287796203898.

ArtsAthenaeum Concert "The Like Minds Ensemble"
ArtsAthenaeum Concert "The Like Minds Ensemble"

April 26, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music presents an ArtsAtheneaum Concert featuring the UNH-based trio, "The Like Minds Ensemble" with Peggy Vagts, flute; Margaret Herlehy, oboe; and Janet Polk, bassoon.

This free concert will be on the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room at the Athenaeum. Space is very limited. To reserve your seat(s), please call (603) 431-2538.

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