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 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...
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...
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...
by Portsmouth Athenaeum | Nov 1, 2018 | Announcements, Exhibits
It’s the final two days to see the Portsmouth Athenaeum’s exhibition Painting Portsmouth’s Notables: 1750-1850. Three new faces joined the notables at the half-way point of the exhibition with a special loan from the Newington Historical Society’s Old...