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	October 2024
		1	2 Franklin Club Franklin Club October 2, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA The Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, was a club for mutual improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The Leather Apron Club's purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs. The Athenaeum's newly formed Franklin Club was created with this mind. Please join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the Sawtelle Reading Room. We loosely follow the list of questions from Ben Franklin’s club, and generally chat and share thoughts about current matters of life and town in a casual manner. The Franklin Club is a great opportunity to bring new members or potential new members who are looking for an opportunity to socialize and get to know other folks that are part of the Athenaeum. •	3	4 Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" October 4, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA Please join us during Art 'Round Town for our current exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" in the third-floor Randall Gallery. •	5
6 PACM SERIES: Piano Duo of Evren Ozel and Ariel Horowitz PACM SERIES: Piano Duo of Evren Ozel and Ariel Horowitz October 6, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm St. John's Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel St, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music Series hosts the Piano Duo of Evren Ozel and Ariel Horowitz at St. John’s Church in Portsmouth, NH. Click here for more information. •	7	8	9	10 New Members Tea New Members Tea October 10, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA New, prospective, and current members are invited to this in-person tea hosted in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room. https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/new-members-tea-2/ •	11	12
13	14	15	16 2024 LECTURE SERIES: “The Paradox of Franklin Pierce's Politics” with Hugh Dubrulle 2024 LECTURE SERIES: “The Paradox of Franklin Pierce's Politics” with Hugh Dubrulle October 16, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA Both scholars and the public remember Franklin Pierce, the only person from New Hampshire elected to the American Presidency, as one of the nation’s worst chief executives, largely because he exacerbated the sectional crisis that led to the Civil War. Pierce is often portrayed as a political lightweight without strong opinions who often served the interests of others. Such an image does not recognize the political principles that guided him throughout much of his career. This talk will focus on Pierce’s political ideas, particularly his commitment to the Union, which his actions, ironically, did so much to tear asunder. Hugh Dubrulle received his BA in History from Pomona College and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught courses on modern Europe and military history in the History Department at Saint Anselm College for over twenty years. Dubrulle is the author of Ambivalent Nation: How Britain Imagined the American Civil War (LSU Press, 2018). He he is currently working on a book about the experience of Civil War soldiering in the 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. For more information and to sign up, please click on the link below. https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/2024-lecture-series-the-paradox-of-franklin-pierces-politics-with-hugh-dubrelle/ Please note, the original presenters Paula Fortner and Phyllis Gagnon were regrettably unable to present the lecture on Franklin Pierce. Happily, St. Anselm College Prof. Hugh Dubrulle has accepted our invitation to deliver his own lecture that evening on the 14th President. We apologize for any inconvenience. •	17	18 “Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Its Impact on the Global Nuclear Order” with Mariana Budjeryn “Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Its Impact on the Global Nuclear Order” with Mariana Budjeryn October 18, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA Ukranian American Mariana Budjeryn will discuss “Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Its Impact on the Global Nuclear Order” with Proprietor Gil Barndollar as moderator. The Athenaeum is delighted to partner with the World Affairs Council for the first time and welcomes Tim Horgan (Executive Director) who will make introductory remarks. A reception will follow, and copies of Mariana’s book Inheriting the Bomb, the collapse of the USSR and the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine will be available. For more information and to sign up, click here. •	19
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Franklin Club
Franklin Club

October 2, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

The Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, was a club for mutual improvement established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The Leather Apron Club's purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy, and to exchange knowledge of business affairs.

The Athenaeum's newly formed Franklin Club was created with this mind. Please join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the Sawtelle Reading Room. We loosely follow the list of questions from Ben Franklin’s club, and generally chat and share thoughts about current matters of life and town in a casual manner. The Franklin Club is a great opportunity to bring new members or potential new members who are looking for an opportunity to socialize and get to know other folks that are part of the Athenaeum.

Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020"
Art 'Round Town for exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020"

October 4, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Please join us during Art 'Round Town for our current exhibit "First in the Nation: New Hampshire Primaries – 1920-2020" in the third-floor Randall Gallery.

PACM SERIES: Piano Duo of Evren Ozel and Ariel Horowitz
PACM SERIES: Piano Duo of Evren Ozel and Ariel Horowitz

October 6, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
St. John's Episcopal Church, 101 Chapel St, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

The Portsmouth Athenaeum Chamber Music Series hosts the Piano Duo of Evren Ozel and Ariel Horowitz at St. John’s Church in Portsmouth, NH.

Click here for more information.

New Members Tea
New Members Tea

October 10, 2024 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

New, prospective, and current members are invited to this in-person tea hosted in the first-floor Sawtelle Reading Room.

https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/new-members-tea-2/

2024 LECTURE SERIES: “The Paradox of Franklin Pierce's Politics” with Hugh Dubrulle
2024 LECTURE SERIES: “The Paradox of Franklin Pierce's Politics” with Hugh Dubrulle

October 16, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Both scholars and the public remember Franklin Pierce, the only person from New Hampshire elected to the American Presidency, as one of the nation’s worst chief executives, largely because he exacerbated the sectional crisis that led to the Civil War. Pierce is often portrayed as a political lightweight without strong opinions who often served the interests of others. Such an image does not recognize the political principles that guided him throughout much of his career. This talk will focus on Pierce’s political ideas, particularly his commitment to the Union, which his actions, ironically, did so much to tear asunder.

Hugh Dubrulle received his BA in History from Pomona College and his MA and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has taught courses on modern Europe and military history in the History Department at Saint Anselm College for over twenty years. Dubrulle is the author of Ambivalent Nation: How Britain Imagined the American Civil War (LSU Press, 2018). He he is currently working on a book about the experience of Civil War soldiering in the 5th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

For more information and to sign up, please click on the link below.

https://portsmouthathenaeum.org/event/2024-lecture-series-the-paradox-of-franklin-pierces-politics-with-hugh-dubrelle/

Please note, the original presenters Paula Fortner and Phyllis Gagnon were regrettably unable to present the lecture on Franklin Pierce. Happily, St. Anselm College Prof. Hugh Dubrulle has accepted our invitation to deliver his own lecture that evening on the 14th President. We apologize for any inconvenience.

“Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Its Impact on the Global Nuclear Order” with Mariana Budjeryn
“Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Its Impact on the Global Nuclear Order” with Mariana Budjeryn

October 18, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801, USA

Ukranian American Mariana Budjeryn will discuss “Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament and Its Impact on the Global Nuclear Order” with Proprietor Gil Barndollar as moderator. The Athenaeum is delighted to partner with the World Affairs Council for the first time and welcomes Tim Horgan (Executive Director) who will make introductory remarks. A reception will follow, and copies of Mariana’s book Inheriting the Bomb, the collapse of the USSR and the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine will be available.

For more information and to sign up, click here.

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