A Little Help from Our Friends

By Tom Hardiman, Keeper & Executive Director   If you have not seen the current exhibit in the Randall Gallery, Peace, Love, and Portsmouth, Celebrating the City’s Cultural Renaissance Through the Lens of J. D. Lincoln, you are missing a real treat. Exhibit...

From the Mouth of Babes

By Tom Hardiman, Keeper and Executive Director Over the past couple of weeks, Proprietor Ellen Fineberg and I gave tours of the 1805 building to twenty groups of Portsmouth 3rd graders. Telling the kids about our history is always fun, rewarding, and exhausting! I...

Message from a lost colony

By Keeper Tom Hardiman   In 2011, the Portsmouth Athenaeum received a remarkable bequest from the estate of long-time Athenaeum Proprietor Dudley Stoddard (1915-2009). Dudley descended from Portsmouth’s Warner family, and he left to the Athenaeum a collection of...