2024 Report of the Keeper and Executive Director
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jan 31, 2025 | Announcements
Tom Hardiman, Keeper & Executive Director For many years now I have reported that the past year was remarkably successful, but the coming year looks precarious. For once, I am going to tempt fate and report that last year was remarkably successful and the coming...A Little Help from Our Friends
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 1, 2023 | Announcements
By Tom Hardiman, Keeper & Executive Director If you have not seen the current exhibit in the Randall Gallery, Peace, Love, and Portsmouth, Celebrating the City’s Cultural Renaissance Through the Lens of J. D. Lincoln, you are missing a real treat. Exhibit...From the Mouth of Babes
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 8, 2023 | Announcements
By Tom Hardiman, Keeper and Executive Director Over the past couple of weeks, Proprietor Ellen Fineberg and I gave tours of the 1805 building to twenty groups of Portsmouth 3rd graders. Telling the kids about our history is always fun, rewarding, and exhausting! I...Keeper’s Report 2021
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Feb 11, 2022 | Announcements
Tom Hardiman, Keeper and Executive Director 2021 was a strange and confounding year. We had a number of great successes and a maddening number of losses and setbacks. We got the library fully reopened regular hours and brought back live exhibits in the Randall...Recent News
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