Proprietors | Portsmouth Athenaeum

Goodbye to Winter

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | 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...

Spring 2025 Newsletter

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Mar 21, 2025 | Announcements

Happening at the Athenaeum The spring Athenæum newsletter is chock full — from a nibble of our newest exhibit, “The Lunch Hour: Portsmouth,” to a look at the “Beauty on the Seacoast and Beyond” lecture series. Meet our 31 newest members...

2025 Annual Meeting

by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Jan 9, 2025 | Announcements, Events

Sunday, January 12, 2025 3 p.m. Shaw Research Library and via Zoom The agenda for the 206th Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the Portsmouth Athenæum will include the following: • Welcome by the Presidento Approval of Minutes of the 2024 Annual Meetingo...

“Clothes for a Sustainable Future: Growing Flax, Processing Linen, and Weaving Cloth in Early New Hampshire” with Dr. Kimberly Alexander

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...

1623: The Untold Story of New Hampshire’s Founding Family by J. Dennis Robinson

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...