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January 21, 2010
Public Invited to January 30th Forum "Putting Portsmouth on the Map"
The University of New Hampshire’s Center for New England Culture (CNEC) and the Portsmouth Historical Society (PHS) are collaborating on a National Endowment for the Humanities grant-funded project to create a comprehensive introductory exhibit of Portsmouth history, enhance themed historic walking trails, and increase site-based ...
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January 19, 2010
Discover Portsmouth Center hosts "Bill Paarlberg: Illustrating Portsmouth" for August 2010 exhibit
The Portsmouth Historical Society has invited well-known local illustrator Bill Paarlberg to show 30 years worth of his Portsmouth drawings, paintings and graphic design for the month of August, 2010 at the Discover Portsmouth Center. The show will occupy the main gallery at the Center and include some 40 or 50 artworks, many of which can be viewed on Mr. Paarlberg's blog "Illustrating Portsmouth." Dr. Richard Candee, VP of the PHS, extended the invitation, based on Mr. Paarlberg's long career of illustrating local architectural and historic themes
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January 11, 2010
Discover Portsmouth Center welcomes 10,376 in 2009
In 2009, the Portsmouth Historical Society set new records and hosted some of its most successful exhibits ever. In total 10,271 visitors toured the Discover Portsmouth Center. Another 3,626 visited the John Paul Jones House Museum.
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January 11, 2010
PSNH awards Portsmouth Historical Society $5,000 for Discover Portsmouth Center
On December 17, 2007, the Portsmouth City Council gave the Portsmouth Historical Society a chance to lease the old library to realize a vision of creating a "gateway to the historical and cultural sites and attractions" of the city.
- January 11, 2010
Discover Portsmouth Center gets new roof
The Portsmouth Historical Society moved another step along the path to making planned capital imporvements to the Discover Portsmouth Center with the start of work on the Academy building roof.
Gifts from our October ...
- October 20, 2009
Portsmouth Peace Treaty Gallery Talk & DPC Performance
Pontine Theatre created an original play for the 100th anniversary of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty in 2005. Based on primary resource materials -- photos, newspaper accounts and diaries -- "Peace of Portsmouth" is reprised each year as a community performance workshop.
On Saturday October 24th and Sunday October 25th the four workshop participants (Diane Woods, Carol Dostie, Barbara Rimkunas and Kathleen Hoesly) will present a "from the book" performance of the play.
The Saturday ...
- October 20, 2009
Society wins AHSNH "Public Education" Award
The Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire (AHSNH) announced at its annual meeting today in New London that the Portsmouth Historical Society has received the association’s first Public Education Award for the Discover Portsmouth Center. According to the announcement, “This was a very competitive first year ...
- June 05, 2009
GALLERY TALK "Stitches in Time: Portsmouth Samplers 1760-1840"
The Society joins with the Portsmouth Athenaeum and Strawbery Banke Museum in celebrating needlecraft, exhibiting 33 samplers from our own collection and the collection of Jean Sawtelle, thanks to a generous bequest from our Trustee, the late Merrilee Possner. Gallery Talk Saturday, October 31 at 11 am.
- January 11, 2010