From the Mouth of Babes

by | 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 | 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...