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Blooming in the Randall Gallery: “The Georgian Garden in Print and in Portsmouth”

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jul 9, 2021 | Announcements, Exhibits

On July 16, the latest Portsmouth Athenaeum exhibit “The Georgian Garden in Print and in Portsmouth” opens, focusing on Europe’s Georgian period of garden design, its most famous gardener designers, the books that disseminated their designs, and the Portsmouth gardens...

“By the Bottle or the Barrel” Exhibit Talks

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 16, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Saturday, Aug. 17, 201911 a.m.Randall Gallery Sandra Rux, co-curator of the exhibit By the Bottle or the Barrel: 400 Years of Brewing in Portsmouth, will give a gallery talk. UPCOMING LECTURES: Thursday, Sept. 5, 20197 p.m.Join both Tad Baker, professor of history at...

Reminder Tomorrow: Gallery Talk Collecting Our LGBTQ+ Stories

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jun 14, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Exhibits

Saturday, June 15, 2019 11 a.m. Randall Gallery On Saturday, June 15, Holly R. Cashman, associate professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire, will talk about the oral history project she is conducting in the NH Seacoast LGBTQ+...

Rainbow Reflections Exhibit

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | May 3, 2019 | Announcements, Exhibits

Seacoast LGBT History Project founder Tom Kaufhold can tell you what led to the work that has consumed him the last four years. “It started with me cleaning out my desk,” he said. Inside that desk were documents related to a fight for an Equal Rights...

The Many Faces of George Washington

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 1, 2019 | Announcements, Exhibits

By Sherry Wood In 1932, on the bicentennial celebration of President George Washington’s birth, many of the members of St. John’s Lodge of the Masons in Portsmouth donned knee breeches, frock coats, powdered wigs and tricorns to take a group photo. To Sandra...