Goodbye to Winter

by | Mar 28, 2025 | Announcements

By Keeper and Executive Director Tom Hardiman Last week we said goodbye to winter (at least according to the calendar). All-in-all, it was a winter to forget. The recent months have been sad for our Athenæum family. Just as we are planning our Memorial Concert on May...

Proprietors We Lost in 2019

by | Oct 5, 2020 | Announcements

Due to the pandemic this year, there will be no Memorial Concert for Proprietors who passed during 2019. To celebrate their lives, Performance Committee Chairman Bill Wieting assembled a pictorial and written tribute. “Instead of reading the obituaries of our...

Memorial Concert

by | Jan 11, 2018 | Announcements, Events

Thursday, January 18, 2018 4 p.m. Reading Room, Portsmouth Athenaeum   Please join us in the Reading Room for the In Memoriam concert with vocalist Mike Blair and guitarist Jim Prendergast to honor those Proprietors we lost in 2017.   In Memoriam 2017...