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!

This is the perfect opportunity to dig into your personal history and tell your family’s story. Use the library’s print collections and research databases to progress with your fact-finding. We’ll gather to use library resources, share our successes, learn from fellow researchers, and overcome our research stumbling blocks!

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.

Our focus will be to move and awaken the body, find a mental respite from our busy lives, recharge our spirit, and fully enjoy our precious summer. 

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. 

Bring your own pre-washed item to dye; we provide the dyes and rubber bands. Prewashing helps the dyes stick to the fibers better. Shirts, shorts, pants, cloth hats, cloth masks, socks, towels ... all great items to bring.

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.

Our focus will be to move and awaken the body, find a mental respite from our busy lives, recharge our spirit, and fully enjoy our precious summer. 

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.
 

At 12:30 pm on Thursday June 26, a Japanese floral exhibition will be unveiled in the library’s lobby. Shortly after, at 1:00 pm, there will be a demonstration of Ikenobo-Ikebana in the Levenson Community Room. All are welcome. The exhibition will be on display from 12:30 pm on Thursday June 26 until noon on Saturday June 28. 

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?

A portion of the profits from the sale of the book are being donated to the Forensic Anthropology Identification and Recovery (FAIR) Lab at the University of New Hampshire. The FAIR Lab trains students to excavate, recover and identify human remains.

Building Foundations of Caregiving will help attendees identify the role of caregivers, explain relationship changes that may happen over time while you are caregiving, describe the five areas of the person-centered care approach, identify possible members of a caregiving support team, and list action steps that help lower caregiver stress. 

There will be time for questions and comments, and follow-up material will be made available.

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.

Our focus will be to move and awaken the body, find a mental respite from our busy lives, recharge our spirit, and fully enjoy our precious summer.