by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 24, 2024
Local author and retired New York attorney Denis Forster will discuss his Amazon Best Seller, Freedom and Adventure, in which he gives an account of his 1961 overland trip, hitchhiking solo from Wisconsin through middle America to Texas, then thousands of miles down...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 30, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library “….in all Joshua Sow’d about 1½ Bu. & ½ peck flax Seed.” Samuel Lane, Almanack, May I, 1769 The history of flax and linen—its cultivation, production, sale, and trade–is an...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 17, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library American identity has always been shaped by its relationship with the wider world. At the moment of its independence in 1783, the new nation was a poor and powerless state trying to survive in a...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 8, 2023 | Announcements, Events
November 30, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library Why do we know so little about David and Amias Thompson of Plymouth, England? And why is the little we know so often wrong? Our first European couple “settled” at Rye, NH in 1623. Within five years the Thompsons...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 21, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library A presentation and book signing by Proprietor Nancy R. Hammond, whose new book, The Life and Times of Jonathan Mitchel Sewall, 1748-1808, Poet – Lawyer – Patriot, resurrects a forgotten Portsmouth...
