News & Announcements

We are pleased to announce a SPECIAL GUEST coming this month – author and illustrator David McPhail will be at the library reading from his latest book, Truffle and doing some live drawing as well as answering questions!  Mr.

Asteroid City
2023. Rated PG-13. Runtime 105 minutes

Guitar Sundays are back! This month's performance features classical guitarist, Colin Davin at Portsmouth Music and Arts Center (PMAC). Due to the Thunder Over NH Air Show, the September performance will begin at 6 PM.  

This year, in celebration of National Arts in Education Week, we want to encourage folks of all ages to study, engage, and interact with the artwork we have right here in the library! It's never too early or too late to learn to appreciate a work of art. So, take up your drawing utensil of choice, grab a card, and explore the library!

Exhibit: Windows of Portsmouth, Hand Drawn Digital Illustrations

Selections from the ongoing series of hand drawn digital illustrations of windows in and around Portsmouth by local artist and designer, Elissa Von Letkemann

Join us at the Portsmouth Farmer's Market this summer! We will be there under the City of Portsmouth tent on June 17, July 22, August 12, and September 16! 

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Love & Bananas
2018.  Not Rated. 77 minutes.

A team of elephant rescuers embark on a mission to rescue a 70-year old captive Asian Elephant.

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Much of what we know of Shakespeare is shrouded in mystery and lost to time, but ‘tis said that never durst a poet touch a pen to write until his ink was tempered with love's sighs. Join us in discussing the Bard and his famed work of Love’s Labour’s Lost this August!