Press Releases/What’s New

Freaky Friday.
2003. PG. 97 minutes.

The Art and Poetry Challenge, an annual Racial Unity Team event, showcases human connection through the arts.

Noted local artist, educator, and Director of Admissions for Recruitment and Access at UNH, Richard Haynes, worked with LGBTQIA+ youth, adults, and allies to collaboratively design a mural that was painted by the public at the Portsmouth Pride event at Strawbery Banke.

Join us for a Research Huddle in the Special Collections Room! In sports, a huddle is when players gather in a circle to strategize, motivate, or celebrate. We think genealogists should do the same!

Sage Clarke is back this summer to offer free weekly yoga classes on Tuesday evenings! Join us on Tuesdays from June 17 to September 16 from 6:30-7:30 PM for an hour of outdoor, all-levels yoga in the library garden behind the library.

The Friend.
2024. R. 123 Minutes.

We think you'll agree that this is a TIED AND TRUE summer classic! (get it??)

Join us in the field next to the library for a BYOT (Bring Your Own T-shirt) Party!!! We provide the dyes, you bring your own item to tie dye. 

Sage Clarke is back this summer to offer free weekly yoga classes on Tuesday evenings! Join us on Tuesdays from June 17 to September 16 from 6:30-7:30 PM for an hour of outdoor, all-levels yoga in the library garden behind the library.

Fascinated by Japanese flower arranging? Come learn about its practice and history at a demonstration and exhibition of Ikenobo-Ikebana at the Portsmouth Public Library.
 

On November 5, 1976 Dorothy Milliken was murdered.

Join author Sharon Kitchens at Portsmouth Public Library as she talks about her new book examining a cold case from Maine: The Murder of Dorothy Milliken. Who was Dorothy? And why has her killer never been found?