This event has been canceled due to the extensive repairs the brewery has been conducting since June.
Visit their website for information about when they will reopen.
Salty & Malty since 1623
When: Thursday, November 13, 5 – 7 pm Where: The Portsmouth Brewery, 56 Market St, Portsmouth, NH What: drink a limited-edition beer inspired by the Portsmouth ride of Paul Revere and participate in historical trivia and games
This beer is inspired by:
the Portsmouth Fires
A trio of 19th-century fires swept through downtown Portsmouth radically changing the cityscape. The Brick Act of 1814 was the direct response to these disastrous fires, attempting to limit the popularity of highly flammable wooden structures. Many of the downtown buildings you know today were built while the brick acts were in place.
When: Thursday, September 28, 5 – 7 pm Where: Liars Bench Beer Company, 459 Islington Street #4, Portsmouth, NH What: drink a limited-edition beer inspired by the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and participate in historical trivia and games
This beer is inspired by:
The Portsmouth Peace Treaty
This treaty formally ended the Russo-Japanese War. It was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, NH on September 5, 1905. President Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in this treaty and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his efforts before and during the peace treaty, despite not being present in Portsmouth during the negotiations.
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Exhibition Programs
Connect with Portsmouth and our local community through the collection or workshops, lectures, and community conversations we have planned this season.
There are no upcoming events at this time.
Exhibition Open Seven Days 10:00 AM–5:00 PM
In the late 1960s and 1970s, the landscape of Portsmouth moved in new directions. A new generation with fresh ideas and entrepreneurial energy cultivated a vision that diverged from earlier approaches to the community’s growth and embraced both historic preservation and modern development. Business owners, civil servants, and cultural leaders leveraged the accessibility of the Seacoast offered by I-95, the inheritance of historical architecture, and the availability of federal funds to create an environment that attracted restaurateurs, fine and performing arts, and turned Portsmouth into the destination it is today.
This story is one that still rings true today—how a group of concerned citizens joined together through public and private partnerships to create community. This is a story of civic engagement and a call to action for all.
Market Square Day, 1978.
Colorized reproduction from original photographic negative.
Image courtesy of Portsmouth Athenaeum.
Mary Jane Connor (1921-2010) Grace Casey, ca.1975. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
“Jubalay” poster
Produced for Theatre by the Sea
Ink on paper, 1977
Portsmouth Athenaeum, MS056, Box 3 F11
Omer T. Lassonde (1903–1980) A Time to Celebrate Oil on canvas, 1975 Collection of Robert S. Chase Awarded Josie Prescott Bicentennial Award, Prescott Park Arts Festival, 1975.
J. D. Lincoln (1933–2022). View Upriver from River House Gallery. Silver gelatin print, 1970s. Grace Casey Collection.
Portrait of Chef James “Buddy” Haller from the Blue Strawbery Cookbook.
J. D. Lincoln (1933–2022). Actors of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel” along the Prescott Park riverfront. Grace Casey Collection
Thank you to our generous sponsors
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Anonymous
Ed & Fran Mallon
McNabb Properties
Thoresen Werner Families Fund
Join Cathryn Mercier, PhD, in-person and via Zoom, for a discussion on how the role of picture books and illustration has changed over the past one hundred years.
Thursday, August 18, 6:00 pm
FREE for members, $15 for non-members
As an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke College (BA ’81) Cathie Mercier was drawn to the scientific emphasis and empiricism of experimental psychology. A psychology major, she did not take her first course in children’s literature until her senior year. “Like Alice, I fell down the rabbit hole and I’ve yet to come up,” said Mercier.
In advance of next year’s celebrations, this commemorative book will give readers a sense of “who we are” and “where we are” as Portsmouth continues its journey from our past before 1623 to our future beyond 2023. Each object is depicted with a full-page photograph accompanied by an essay by a local author – 80 different writers who are the historians, experts, participants, and observers of Portsmouth history best able to explain how each object’s story offers a path into our bigger 400+ year history.
