Join Portsmouth Public library in welcoming Amanda Lovelace (she/they) and Parker Lee (they/them) for a poetry reading and Q&A over Zoom!

In celebration of National Poetry month we’re very excited to host Amanda, who is the author of several bestselling poetry titles, including their celebrated "women are some kind of magic" series, along with their partner Parker, who is a trans and non-binary poet and storyteller, as well as the author of “coffee days whiskey nights”.

Join us at PMAC, Portsmouth Music and Arts Center, for a free concert featuring highly acclaimed classical guitarist, John Muratore, who performs regularly as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician.

Join us on Sunday, April 2 from 2-4 PM to meet the artists and view their work at the reception for the annual exhibit of SPLASH! This exhibit will feature a wide array of stunning creations that showcase the innovative, inspiring minds of our Visual Arts students from grades K-12. The Portsmouth Public Library will come alive with art from Dondero, Little Harbour, New Franklin as well as the Portsmouth Middle and High Schools.

Join Bob & Barb Maurais from Mainely Ticks on Thursday April 20 from 6:30-8 PM  to learn strategies to better protect your family from the ever-increasing threat of ticks and tick-borne diseases. At this free workshop, you will learn personal protection strategies for you, your family, and your pets, landscape modifications, and the life cycle of the deer tick. There will be time for Q & A with the experts. All attendees will receive a complimentary tick identification guide, bookmark, and pair of fine-pointed tweezers.  Registration is required. 

Join us for an intermediate knitting class to learn the intarsia technique! Registration is required. 

Join historian Sam Collins, former curator of the Vaughn Cottage Museum on Star Island, to explore the historical records of the Isles of Shoals. We'll dig into the wide range of archival materials both on the islands and on the mainland.

Learn about the relationship between Indigenous representation in public library local history collections and the collective understanding of the land now known as New Hampshire. Findings demonstrate that New Hampshire public library's local history collections often lack recognition or an accurate representation of Abenaki histories, and, instead, hold a majority white authorship which relegates Abenaki peoples to a distant past, casting indigeneity in the light of myth and folklore.

“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defense. Through this we can build, we must build a defense against repetition.” - Simon Wiesenthal, Holocaust Survivor

The past becomes prologue if societies do not learn the right lessons and take preventative action. With plenty of examples throughout history, the world has ample evidence of what leads to genocide in all of its forms, yet there are at least a dozen current genocide emergencies in the world today, as defined by Genocide Watch.

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here at Shakespeare Discussion group! We invite you to join our merry band of players for our March discussion of The Tempest on the 28th at 4PM. Worry not if you’ve not joined in the past, as we invite fellows of all ages and knowledge to attend. This discussion will take place in the Macleod room at the library for, our library is indeed dukedom large enough!