by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 2, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom This year’s series concludes on November 15 when Rodney Rowland presents Water Has a Memory: Sea Level Rise, Our Past, Our Future. Strawbery Banke Museum is confronting the impacts of and...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Oct 6, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom A long-time student of New England interiors, Jane C. Nylander’s talk on October 18, At Home in Portsmouth, 1750 – 1850 will weave together a host of primary sources to expand our...
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...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Sep 13, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom The Athenaeum lecture series, Portsmouth, NH: Evolution 1623-2023 Part 2, continues with with Ed Caylor’s talk, Trading on the Gundalow. For more than 200 years, gundalows sparked the...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Aug 24, 2023 | Announcements, Events
Sunday, Sept, 10, 2023 Shaw Research Library FREE We are all too accustomed to political leaders declaring “Our country is full.” The United Nations has tried since the Second World War to assure the inalienable rights of refugees in the face of civil unrest,...