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Happy New Year – I've been thinking about what's ahead in the new year but I'm also reflecting on the year that's just passed. As I've been browsing through the pictures of the new sites I've seen as well as the places I've revisited, the people I've met and those with whom I've reconnected, I've also reflected fondly on those who are no longer with us.
I was able to mark something off my bucket list. The travel literature touts the Chicago Architectural Tour as the thing to do. www.chicagoline.com So when I was in Chicago for a conference, I was able to arrange time for the tour. Although it was a gray, drizzly, Fall day, I thoroughly enjoyed the tour and I highly recommend it. Another site I enjoyed on that trip was the Shedd Aquarium. www.sheddaquarium.org In addition to the majestic beluga whales, dolphins, and jellyfish, there's a beautiful view of the city from the balcony.
I attended 3 ghost tours this year: Kissimme, Florida; San Antonio, Texas; and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. They were all different and enjoyable in their own way. I had a "ghostly encounter in Kissimmee" and pictures of orbs in Gatlinburg. The Alamo at night is surreal especially if you think about what happened there in 1836. I'm looking forward to doing more tours in 2013.
My husband had a first this year — we went on a cruise. He didn't like it much so I guess the Alaskan cruise is out. So glad we did a trial run – a short cruise from Galveston to Cozumel. We did enjoy the fishing trip in Cozumel. It was a great day for a boat ride though the only thing we caught was a sunburn. I'm hoping that I will eventually be able to talk him into the Alaska trip.
One of my favorite hotels this year was the Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas. It is a beautifully restored magestic old hotel.
I had a first — I won a $90 cash out in Las Vegas on the Sex and the City slot machine. I even took a picture to mark the occasion. I know that is probably small potatoes to most of you big rollers but it was a big exciting deal to me. Thanks to my friend Kathy Adams for filling me in on her gambling tips.
I enjoyed trips with my family. Living in Florida, we made a few trips to Orlando. One such trip was with my 3 of my favorite Harry Potter fans. I also went to Epcot for the Food and Wine Festival
In August, we went to visit our family in New Orleans and enjoyed a tour of the Laura Plantation. It was a beautiful day. We also went to the W.W. II Museum. Both were well worth the price of entry.
In 2012, we lost 2 people who were very important to our family. My husband's mother, Betty Michael, went to be with her husband, Mose, in July. My good friend for 35 years, Dorothy Meyers Wray was taken much too soon the Saturday after Thanksgiving. They are both sorely missed. I am dedicating this entry to them.
Stay tuned for more adventures in 2013. Larry and I are headed to Italy.


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No matter where your anger stems from, it is an undeniable that its impact on your life is neither healthy nor positive. While it is true that anger is an emotion we experience almost every day, and giving vent to this anger is important and beneficial for you, the way you do it is equally important!
Some of us have a lot more patience to deal with whatever is causing us to get angry, but not all of us are blessed with the same level of tolerance. And if you belong to the latter category of people, you are not alone…there are too many people out there who burst out in a rage quite often (read: regularly).
But you can't let your anger rule your life, and to let it control you would be detrimental not just to you but it affects those around as well. If you truly want to make your anger management treatments work, you must WILL it from within, and self hypnosis makes this will a reality.
When your efforts at anger management do not work, the reason is not their inefficiency, but your mind set. You must want to change your response to anger from your deepest core, but more often than not, your mindset (however unconsciously) does not allow you to master your anger.
This is where self hypnosis can work wonders.
But before that why is anger harmful?
Anger is an emotion that can be destructive, our mind's hidden way of letting us know that we have gone off-course. It alerts us to the knowledge that our boundaries and sense of self preservation are being violated, that what is happening to us is not right and must be countered.
Thus, anger sometimes comes out on the surface as annoyance and at times, it controls our lives — leaving destruction in its wake.
It is when anger becomes so negative that it becomes destructive that you should hear warning bells.
|Anger not only disturbs you emotionally, but wreaks havoc on your physical health as well.
Hence, anger management is necessary, because allowing anger to have its way will only cause you harm.
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Steps to use self hypnosis for anger management:
What can help you in your efforts at managing your anger with self hypnosis is: Anger Management: Self Hypnosis CD / MP3 Download.
Use self hypnosis to master your anger, rather than allowing it to master you and you will be a happier person…and live a better life.


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Pep Guardiola 'Satisfied' As Manchester City Secure Round Of 16 Qualification With Gladbach Draw
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola felt that qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League was vital at this stage of the season, after his side drew 1-1 with Borussia Moenchengladbach, 90min reports. Raffael had put the hosts in …Read More »
Pep Guardiola Happy With Yaya Toure Return After 2-1 Win Against Crystal Palace
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has heaped praise on Yaya Toure after the midfielder made a successful return to the first-team, 90min reports. Toure was an unexpected inclusion in City's starting lineup, and proved to be the match winner, scoring …Read More »
Pep Guardiola Gives Hilarious Straightforward Reply To Samir Nasri's 'Sex Ban' Claims [VIDEO]
Has anyone else been left feeling slightly uncomfortable about all the chat about sex bans emanating out of Manchester City this week? Samir Nasri, who departed the Etihad to join Sevilla on a season-long loan in the summer, claimed that …Read More »
Kolo Toure Urges Younger Brother Yaya To Leave Manchester City And Move To France
Celtic defender Kolo Toure has advised his brother Yaya to leave Manchester City, with the latter not part of manager Pep Guardiola's plans this season, according to 90min. The well-publicised disagreement between Guardiola, Toure and his agent has prevented the Ivorian midfielder from …Read More »
Yaya Toure Apologises To #ManCity Boss, Pep Guardiola Over Accusations Made By Agent Dmitri Seluk
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Premier League Club Ready To Make £20m Move For Cesc Fabregas
Just two years into life at Chelsea and things have swiftly spiraled downwards for Cesc Fabregas. After a flying debut season, the Spaniard was one of the biggest victims of last year's debacle and has now been reduced to the …Read More »
Diego Simeone Eyes Move To The Premier League To Battle With Guardiola, Mourinho And Klopp
Diego Simeone wants a job in the Premier League so that he can battle it out with the likes of Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho and Jurgen Klopp, 90min reports. The Atletico Madrid manager, who has won La Liga and reached …Read More »
Roy Keane Slams Manchester City And Pep Guardiola After Barcelona Defeat [VIDEO]
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The Mega Matrimony Meet held at the 'Coastal City' of Mangalore was a huge success. The meet was organized in association with Karhada Parishat, Mangalore.
The event saw a footfall of more than 1,300 participants and their accompanying parents and decision makers.
The meet started with the auspicious Swayamvara Parvathi Homa.
The Mega Matrimony Meet was inaugurated by Balakrishna Bhat – Ex-MLC, Karnataka Vidhana Parishat Venkatesh Bhat Aati Kukke (Chairman of Karhada Brahmana Samaja and retd RBI official) Nagaraj Uppangala (Vice President of Akhila Bharatha Karhada Maha Sabha) Keshav Bhat (Radhakrishna Devasthana, Balam Bhatt Hall, Mangalore)
Shri Chakravarthy Murali – Executive Vice President – Sri Sankara Matrimony
The anchors profiled all the participants on their expectations of life partner. The astrologers provided free horoscope matching services. The help desk of Sri Sankara Matrimony provided assistance on matching profiles and answered other queries of the participants.
Sumptous lunch was arranged by Karhada Parishad for all the attendees.
The crew of Sri Sankara TV provided technical support and the meet will be telecasted in Sri Sankara TV Subha Muhurtham on Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 AM
The consolidated PDF list of all the participants shall be sent to participants by 18th – 2018 (Monday) to all the participants.
Sri Sankara Matrimony has organized Mega Matrimony Meet in Bengaluru, Chennai, Coimbatore, Sri Rangam, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Mysuru.


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Jared Lankford: Following Webb City's blueprint
There is an old saying that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Nowhere is this statement more correct than in the world of sports.
In the 1990s, the Buffalo Bills took the idea of the hurry-up offense and applied it to the whole game. That style of offense gave birth to the shotgun strategy, using five-receiver sets on what used to be considered running downs.
The passing idea has further evolved.
Today, there are college coaches, like those at Oregon, who want the team to get 90 or more offensive snaps per game.
In the past decade, the I formation, wishbone and veer have given way to the spread offense.
The running back position has lost much of its luster, and the days of 1,000-yard rushers seem numbered.
This trend is not limited just to football, or even sports, but also the business world. Why? When you see success, you try to emulate the formula.
Pick up a generic box of medicine and you will see a statement asking you to compare its ingredients to the name brand version. The point the manufacturer is making is that the generic is just as good, but at a cheaper price.
Grocery stores want you to believe that fruit whirls are just as good as Fruit Loops.
I'm not saying that emulation or brand competition is a bad thing. I believe you should model yourself or your sports program off of something that is successful.
Many people in southwest Missouri are familiar with John Roderique. He is the head coach of the most successful football program in Missouri.
Webb City is tied for the most state championships in our grand state, and the big red machine shows no signs of slowing down.
Every time a football coaching job opens in Missouri, Roderique's name is always rumored to be in the running. I'm sure when Gary Pinkel retires from Mizzou, someone will be advocating that Roderique should inherit that job.
What Roderique has accomplished at Webb City over the past 18 years has been nothing short of amazing. He has won 92 percent of his games, made 16 playoff trips, had 11 Show-Me Bowl appearances and won nine state titles.
Success like that is worth emulation.
If you talk to Roderique, he is quick to deflect credit and praise. He will instead tell you about the great community support, his dedicated athletes and his assistant coaches.
What makes the Cardinals' machine tick is the way he has vertically integrated his program.
His teams reload, they don't rebuild.
The system created forces junior varsity players to practice against the state's best every day. When a player is hurt, there are two more ready to step in, and the system never misses a beat.
The process begins with the Mighty Mite third-grade football program at Webb City. The Cardinal youth are taught and drilled over and over again on the veer offense. The coaches are given a playbook designed by Roderique. They attend coaching clinics so they can implement high school strategies, boiled down to be
applicable at the youth level.
Their youth teams will suffer defeats, but the goal isn't to win youth games, it is to create football players.
For the coaches, it is not about the me, but the we.
Year after year, the Mighty Mite program adds to athletes' base fundamentals until they turn the players over to the school's coaching staff in the seventh grade.
From there, the skills are further refined until the players enter their freshman season with six years of veer knowledge and technique under their belts.
The players find that the same blocking assignments, terminology and playbook taught to them six years earlier is the same one being used at the high school level.
Because of their fundamental soundness, most games are won before they even step off the bus on Friday nights. They slay teams that are bigger, more talented and come with more hype, because teamwork will beat individual talent every day of the week.
The Cardinals have appeared in seven of the last nine state title games including the last five consecutively.
I find it more than coincidence that their dominance in the last decade has grown since his system's inception.
Wildcats Nation has also witnessed these principles on full display and has two state championships to show for their work.
Roderique believes you can't have third-graders running the I formation, fourth-graders learning the spread, fifth-graders the veer and sixth graders the pro set and expect the kids to be ready for high school with just two seasons in his system.
He has proven, the system is fun and will produce results when implemented early on in the athletes' lives.
Stan Van Gundy, the Detroit Pistons' head coach, once told a group of YMCA coaches that when he coached youth leagues, he didn't care if his squads won a single game. His players were going to learn his way -- the right way to dribble, pass, shoot and play defense. His goal was not to win youth championships, but to create better players -- players who could win in high school, in college, in the pros, and in life.
That is the Webb City way, one that churns out champions.
Jared Lankford is the sports editor of the Cassville Democrat He may be reached at email@example.com, or at 417-847-2610.


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Self Defense Insurance For Concealed Carry In New York
With the rapid growth of personal concealed carry holders in New York and in the United States there have been a significant number of organizations and insurance companies that are beginning to provide traditional style insurance, at first review it may seem like a good idea yet when you research into it further you soon will realize that in almost every case you still have to pay out-of-pocket expenses, and then seek your reimbursement. Ask yourself a one very serious question, do I really have an extra $100,000 just lying around the house that I can totally risk in possibly being paid back?
With any traditional insurance policies in New York, they are only designed in assisting you in monetary reimbursement, and in all honestly nothing more. So how does any regular insurance policy really help you win in your personal case in court, the answer is simple and blunt, it can't! That is why we support CCW Safe's Self Defense Insurnace for all Concealed Carry permit holders.
Self Defense Insurance Is Needed In New York If You Plan To Get A CCW Permit!
If you are one of the responsible citizens that carry a firearm in New York for self-defense of yourself and your family, or if you're even considering caring a concealed weapon one very important factor you must consider are the legal ramifications after a shooting incident, how do you plan to protect yourself in the event of a civil or criminal court proceedings where you could end up as the defendant.
No matter how justified you feel you were in using deadly force to protect yourself, you could face a unfriendly local prosecutor looking to make a name for themselves in New York, and you could end up a political pawn!
When you're fighting for your life in the judicial system, there are other out of pocket expenses that can equal or even exceed the attorneys' fees. Bail, investigators, experts, pre-trial discovery, are just a few of the expenses that have to be covered in a self-defense case.
CCW Safe covers ALL the costs of your legal expenses if you are ever forced to take a life. You will never have to worry about coming out of pocket with our plans.
Regardless of whether you are being sued by the family of the attacker in civil court or are facing criminal charges in New York one thing for sure is you will have an enormous amount of debt as a result of any court case. Simply put any legal representation is extremely expensive, regardless of whether or not you win the case or walk free.
With the rise of the number of people taking their self-defense into their own hands and becoming legal concealed carry permit holders in New York there have been a corresponding number of companies starting to offer different types of self-defense insurance.
Although upon an initial inspection many of these different programs offered by insurance companies or via websites seem to offer good coverage. There is one common element amongst all of them, and that is they only pay after you are already in extreme debt, and will not reimburse you in the event of a criminal conviction. Basically, they are nothing more than a different spin on a traditional insurance policy.
The CCW safe program in New York is the first true comprehensive legal service membership that includes not only attorney fees, it also covers and provides for investigators and expert witnesses that work on your behalf, and defend you against criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and administrative actions all stemming from the use of force incident.
Insurance for Self Defense and Concealed Carry In New York Is The Best Choice!
If you do your research you will quickly find out that the CCW Safe legal service membership program in New York outperforms any other self-defense and or legal defense insurance policy offered by anyone in the country.
Chances are when you first decided to carry a Firearm for self-defense you did your research, you decided on the right gun, the right caliber, the right type of ammunition, and the right instructor to teach you how to properly shoot. More than likely you also participated in a specialized class to meet the legal requirements in New York to obtain your concealed carry permit.
Unless you were very fortunate chances are that no one really went over all of the legal ramifications after you pull the trigger, nor did anyone explain to you that even if you did everything to the letter of the law, did it exactly right, you could still be sued in civil court and found liable, even though you're not prosecuted criminally. Yes it does sound absurd but it happens every day in this country.
You must be properly prepared for all eventualities and you must have legal protection in place because if you don't and you are taken to court in New York you could possibly lose everything you have, and everything you could ever hope to have in the future, it could all be taken from you.
CCW Safe's Membership In New York Is The Best Option For Self Defense Insurance
The single best way that you can prepare for any legal action against you in a self-defense situation is by becoming a member of CCW Safe's program in New York, it could very well be a decision that you make that you will be thankful for literally for the rest of your life.
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CCW Safe's program covers you in New York, and all other 49 states providing that you are legally carrying in a particular state where the self-defense incident takes place and if your CCW or CHL is honored in that state, then you're covered.
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New York, It is hard to believe that the New York State Constitution has language in one of its Provisions such as: Article 2, Section 4 of the New York Civil Rights Law provides: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed."
New York State and the city of New York specifically have the most gun restrictive laws of any state or city in the country (the city of Chicago is about equal) New York of recent times has been at the center of the Second Amendment debate and the right to possess and bear arms. Although a CCW permit can be obtained in New York they are almost impossible to obtain.
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg became the 108th and current Mayor of New York City he brought with him his personal anti-gun agenda to the Mayor's office. He has invested a significant portion of his personal wealth to his anti-gun and anti-second amendment agenda. He has openly called for the repeal of the Second Amendment or at a minimum that it be re-interpreted, apparently the Mayor sees himself on equal status as our Founding Fathers. He may be a successful businessman and politician yet his comments and views clearly show he is neither a true patriot nor a person who supports the constitution, and is not in the same league as our forefathers who formed our great nation.
New York, June 2013; A midlevel state court has rejected claims that New York's new gun law violates the state constitution because it was passed too quickly and restricts the rights of a citizen militia. The Appellate Division decision Wednesday upheld a judge's ruling that state law generally prohibits judicial review of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's justification for pushing the bill quickly through the Legislature on Jan. 15, instead of waiting the three days usually required. Cuomo used a "message of necessity" to skirt the waiting period, saying some guns and high-capacity magazines are so dangerous they needed to be restricted as soon as possible. Robert Schulz, who sued with more than 1,000 other plaintiffs, claims Cuomo's emergency justification was false. The law bans high-capacity magazines and tightens the definition of illegal "assault weapons."
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New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg never seems satisfied to leave bad enough alone. He now seeks to model New York's gun laws upon the Chicago murder capital fiasco, and is financing a $12 million propaganda campaign to sell his "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" program. While a major focus, at least for now, is to push for legislation mandating national background checks on all handgun sales, don't expect the mayor's anti-gun agenda to end there. His group has also circulated a factually-flawed report charging that the NRA has "kept the country in the dark about gun violence".
Who is really keeping the nation in the dark? Perhaps the items that follow will shed some points of light on this matter. Tough Gun Laws Don't Reduce Murder Rates, Criminals and Gangs Don't Get Background Checks, Gun Laws Can't Control Absentee Parenting, Gun Laws are Racist, Gun Laws are Sexist, Gun-Free Zones Invite Violence, Gun Laws are Dangerous, Statistics Don't Support Anti-Gun Propaganda, "Assault Weapon" is a Politically-Loaded Term, This all per Forbes Magazine.
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I've always been a huge fan of You Me At Six and recently Josh Franceschi (lead singer) has been tweeting saying he's writing new material for their new album. This makes me very excited. On top of this, I get to see them again when they support Blink 182 later this year.
So in aid of all the You Me At Six-ness that is happening in 2011 I've been listening to their old albums a lot.
When they first released Hold Me Down I liked it but it was quite obviously different from their debut Take Off Your Colours. I couldn't decide which I liked more but now I know it's definitely the second album.
There are a few reasons for this. In Take Off Your Colours Josh's vocals are great, his lyrics good and the music also good. But you can tell that they were young. All the songs are fantastic but there's that element of teenage music to it.
However with Hold Me Down, everything about it is mature. The lyrics are perfect. Each song I can relate to somehow. Josh's vocals are stronger than before and he does small things that leave you wanting more. Musically, the band upped their game.
There are a couple of tracks that really stand out on Hold Me Down, these are: Stay With Me and Liquid Confidence. Both of them are just great classic songs. Josh's vocals are at his best and there's passion from the band in these songs.
If you're interested in hearing more, here are some links to my favourites:
Underdog (Acoustic)
Save It For The Bedroom


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Of Maps, Libraries, and Lectures: The Nebenzahl Lectures and the Study of Map History/
Matthew Edney
This is the script of my lecture for the 19th Nebenzahl Lecture series, as presented on 27 October 2016. Some information from the slides are added, but most has not been transferred; I've stripped the call-outs to slide changes. An expanded essay, with full notes, will be published in the final volume for the lecture series.
The interrelationship between collecting and studying early maps is readily apparent in the scholarly act that inaugurated the modern study of map history. This act took place in a library, specifically that in Paris of the polymath, Baron Charles-Athanase Walckenaer. Early in 1832, Walckenaer showed a map he had just acquired to an eminent visitor, Alexander von Humboldt. The map, drawn in a maritime style, held Humboldt's interest because of its depiction of the New World. Using the "riches" of the baron's "extensive library," Humboldt was able to determine that this newfound map had been made in 1500 by Columbus's pilot, Juan de la Cosa, and Humboldt celebrated it for the immediate, tangible link it gave him to that momentous period when, apparently, modern rationalism was born and triumphed over ancient limits and medieval ignorance.
Thereafter, other scholars increasingly collected early maps and studied them as surrogates for the history of western civilization, in order to justify the supposed intellectual superiority of Westerners and to validate the West's rise to global domination. But just as such arguments have been exposed in recent decades as Eurocentric self-justifications for modern imperialism, so too has map history been profoundly transformed as a field. Today, scholars from across the humanities and social sciences pursue a map history that is empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated. We now study a far wider array of images — such as Heinrich Bünting's 1581 metaphorical world map — and we do so in more different ways than Walckenaer and Humboldt could ever have imagined.
The inaugural moment for the present-day field of study also took place in a library: this one. Here, in the Fellows' Lounge directly above us, exactly fifty years ago tonight, R. A. Skelton began the first series of the Kenneth J. Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography. Skelton's lectures gave the first impetus to overcome the field's intellectual inertia. Thereafter the Nebenzahl Lectures have been a constant force in the development of new approaches to the study of early maps. My task today is to tell the story of the lectures and to assess their significance. I begin with the state of the field in the 1960s and the intertwined origins of the lectures themselves with the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. I continue by exploring how the lectures, starting with Skelton's own, have had a substantial intellectual impact. And, finally, I am compelled to echo Skelton's last lecture and reflect on the current state of field: the Nebenzahl Lectures and the Smith Center are together in a position to reenergize the field and to lead it into novel and untried pastures.
Map History in the 1960s
Before I turn to the state of the field in the 1960s, I need to clarify some terminology. My preferred catchall term for the scholarly activity of studying early maps and mapping, for whatever purpose and in whatever way, is "map history." By contrast, "the history of cartography" has always been used prescriptively to define and delimit the field of study for ideological reasons. In other words, there is much more to map history than the history of cartography. In this lecture, I generally use "the history of cartography" to mean specifically the field as Skelton conceptualized it in his 1966 lectures. Skelton would develop that conception in reaction to the three distinct communities of map historian active in the 1960s, each of which pursued particular studies of early maps in support of their larger disciplinary goals.
The first community, which originated in the Renaissance, comprised those scholars who have been interested in reading early maps for their substance, for the information they provide about the past. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, substantive map historians progressively organized themselves within history and geography. Their particular interest lay in the content of detailed, large-scale plans — such as those of the Austrian military — that can be used to reconstruct past landscapes, settlement patterns, and agricultural systems.
Second, starting in the later seventeenth century, professional surveyors and map makers have pursued an internal history of professional mapping practices and institutions. Each particular group has written its own historical narrative in order to place itself at the forefront of technical progress. In the twentieth century, academic cartography was predicated largely on an historical sensibility that sought to explain the look and nature of maps — i.e., map form — through histories of the underlying technical practices. Academic cartographers were especially interested in the development of thematic mapping and of relief depiction. In 1921, for example, Max Eckert reproduced a papyrus map from ancient Egypt to demonstrate the ancient origins of certain conventions of relief depiction.
Third were Walckenaer and Humboldt's intellectual descendants, the various historians, map librarians, and antiquarian dealers and collectors who in the nineteenth and twentieth century have traced the growth of geographical knowledge in small-scale geographical and marine maps so as to tell the history of Western exploration and discovery as a surrogate for Western science and civilization. This community was much larger and more self-organized than the other two, and its members called themselves "historians of cartography." Beginning with Skelton, map historians have looked to this specific community as the sole precursor to the present-day field, so I refer to them as "traditional" map historians.
All three communities adhered to the same general understanding of cartography as a singular and essentially factual endeavor in which the world is progressively observed and measured so that it might be scientifically reproduced on paper. Yet the specific purpose of each community in studying early maps meant that each concentrated on certain kinds of maps from specific eras. As such, there was little interest or even opportunity for the different communities to interact.
This mutual isolation began to change after World War Two. This graph of the number of doctoral degrees awarded annually over the course of the twentieth century gives one measure of academia's post-war explosion. A new emphasis on doctorates infused academia with new concerns for rigorous methodologies and conceptual structures. For example, in 1964, the British historical geographer Brian Harley published a guide to the proper substantive analysis of nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey maps. Again, R. A. Skelton, in a 1962 lecture published in 1965, argued the case for rigor in the visual analysis of early maps by traditional map historians.
In this situation, a number of map scholars — mostly the keen, younger ones eager to differentiate themselves from their elders — started to cross between the communities to talk to others interested in early maps. Their interactions were helped by the fact that all map historians adhered to the same basic premise that maps are factual and innately scientific documents. The barriers between the three communities steadily dissolved. And as map scholars increasingly interacted, they began to argue over the best way to study map history: was it to understand map form, as internal map historians held, or to elucidate map content, as traditional and substantive map historians insisted?
The Nebenzahl Lectures at the Newberry Library
In this period of academic flux, it was easy for new ideas to develop and take hold. This was certainly the case for the establishment at the Newberry Library of the Nebenzahl Lectures and then the Smith Center.
Ken Nebenzahl had begun using the Newberry Library's collections in the early 1950s, to indulge his personal fascination with rare books and maps. Right from the start, he has said, the library was "a magical place to me." Guided by the Newberry's curators, Ken learned enough to be able to set up shop, with Jossy, as a dealer in rare books and maps. They received their formal incorporation papers on 1 November 1957; Jossy ran the shop and the accounts while Ken scoured Europe for stock. The antiquarian trade was booming. Post-war economic stresses led many established European collections to be sold off, many in their entirety, to U.S. buyers. These included both long-established collectors and institutions, as well as newly expanding state universities seeking to build up their special collections. It was easy for any dealer to be successful; all one had to do, Ken has said, was to set one's alarm clock.
The Newberry and its staff contributed significantly to the success of the new business. Library president Stanley Pargellis recommended Ken to potential clients; the library's curators bought extensively. James Wells, curator of the Wing Collection, became a particular friend. One day in 1963, at lunch, Ken wondered how he and Jossy might give something back to the library. Wells immediately replied that they should start a lecture series in map history.
The idea appealed greatly to the library's new President, Bill Towner, but not because he was himself interested in maps and mapping. Towner was trying to build programs by which the library might support scholarship and public interest in the humanities. Since its founding in 1887, the Newberry had operated essentially as a grand gentleman's club. Pargellis had begun to counter the library's isolation with a small fellowship program and a number of topical conferences. When he took over from Pargellis, Towner proposed a "Midwest Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities" to attract scholars to the Newberry's "great resources in the literature, history, music, and philosophy of Western Civilization." Even without maps and mapping — omitted from Towner's list because the traditional understanding of the humanities simply precluded the science of cartography — the putative research center was too broadly framed for Towner to secure the necessary financial support.
It was at just this moment that Ken and Jossy Nebenzahl pitched the proposal for a lecture series in map history. Towner was intrigued. The Nebenzahls' success implied that there was widespread interest in early maps among Chicagoland's great and good, while Ken's use of the library suggested that its map collections were indeed significant and substantial. Maybe, Towner thought, he could begin to foster humanities research at the Newberry through the particular vehicle of map history.
In December 1963, Ken and Jossy made the first installment to fund a lecture series, to be named after their son, Kenneth Jr. The gift was publicized in June 1964, when the visiting Dutch cartographer and historian Cornelis Koeman gave a public lecture on the life and career of Abraham Ortelius. Between the public interest and Koeman's positive reaction to the quality of the Newberry's holdings, Towner was reassured that there was indeed great potential for a research center in map history. Not that Towner then had a clue about the intellectual character of the work such a center would undertake, but he did know what was needed institutionally.
A blow-by-blow account of Towner's efforts to fund a map center is unnecessary. Most of the blows were to his ego, so the story will be dispiritingly familiar to anyone with experience in academic fund-raising and tedious to everyone else. Suffice to say that the price tag for the whole program — a full-time curator of maps; a director of the map center; the acquisition of new collections; fellowships for students and scholars; special projects; and, of course, the Nebenzahl Lectures — was huge, amounting to more than $1.5 million over ten years, equivalent today to as much as $25,000,000. This proved far too rich for funders, and Towner began to think that the idea of a research center was no more than an "agreeable pipe-dream."
Discouraged but not deterred, Towner instead focused individually on each element of a putative research center. He raised the funds to acquire the Novacco Collection of sixteenth-century Italian maps and the Sack Collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century atlases. He realigned the library's overall budget to permit the hiring, in 1969, of David Woodward as the first map curator. And he secured grants for specific projects, notably the Atlas of Early American History.
The Nebenzahl Lectures were the most publically visible of the Newberry's map-related programs and they formed the cornerstone of all of Towner's efforts to establish a research center. Towner used the first two lecture series to learn more about the field, to assess the library's holdings, and to proselytize for a research center. Both lecturers had a month residency — first R. A. Skelton in October and November 1966, then William Cumming in April 1970 — and both delivered four lectures. While Cumming simply reviewed the library's holdings pertaining to colonial North America and gave his lectures, Towner got his money's worth from Skelton. He persuaded Skelton first, to use his lectures to address the field's "needs and opportunities"; then to write two reports, one on the state of the library's cartographic collections, the other on the potential for a research center; and finally to lead two seminars, one on the hot topic of the Vinland Map, the other on the feasibility of a research center. The participants in the second seminar included many prominent map scholars, and all were greatly enthused by the prospect of a center.
Towner's dogged quest eventually bore fruit when, in March 1971, Dutch Smith, president of the library's trustees and a significant map collector in his own right, declared his intent to endow a cartographic research center with $600,000, or about $8.6 million today. The center opened for business on April 1st, 1971, under a temporary name and under Woodward's direction. Underscoring the intertwined histories of the center and the lecture series, the formal dedication of the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography on November 1st, 1972, with a keynote lecture by the great historian of discoveries, Samuel Eliot Morison, also marked the opening of the third series of Nebenzahl Lectures, on "Five Centuries of Map Printing."
The immediate product of the Nebenzahl Lectures was thus the Smith Center. Trained as he was in a humanities that excluded cartography, Bill Towner would never have thought to establish a research center in map history had Ken and Jossy not followed through on that initial, lunch-time suggestion by James Wells. The new institutional and research focus on maps and mapping became a strategic move on Towner's part to build the library's public and intellectual profile as a necessary step in attracting still further funding for other research centers. This strategy was effective; an indirect product of the lectures has therefore been the establishment in subsequent years of the Newberry Library's three other research centers.
Skelton on the "History of Cartography"
Towner's efforts to create a research center in the humanities that focused on early maps and mapping would not have come to fruition had R. A. Skelton not persuaded him, Dutch Smith, and others that a humanities-centered approach to map history was indeed both feasible and desirable. Although brief, Skelton's arguments constituted a major change in the study of maps and mapping, change that would be continued by the Smith Center's directors in later Nebenzahl Lectures.
Skelton was a remarkable scholar. His personal interests very much lay in the traditional topics of exploration and discovery. But as superintendent of the map room in the British Museum — now the British Library — at a time of increasingly interaction, he inevitably contributed to all three flavors of map history. Cornelis Koeman would later remember him as "one of the very few scholars in the field" who had "mastered all the special branches of this subject," whether the traditional (history of discoveries, early charts, and cartobibliography), the internal (cartographic techniques, the map trade), or the substantive (topographical mapping).
Skelton's lectures revealed some of this breadth. He delivered his four lectures in two pairs, all under the general title of "The Study and Collecting of Early Maps: A Historical Survey." The first lecture comprised a rapid history of mapmaking from Antiquity to the present. He avoided a simple list of "great maps I have known" by using the narratives developed by internal map historians to present the technological and intellectual "watersheds" through which this endeavor had passed. In his other lectures, on the intertwined histories of map collecting and the study of early maps, Skelton referred to the work of early modern substantive map historians. But for the modern era, after 1800, he focused almost exclusively on the work of traditional map historians, especially as filtered through the work of map librarians. For example, much of his final lecture on the current state of the field comprised a review of the bibliographies, cartobibliographies, and especially the facsimile atlases by which map historians made early maps available to other scholars.
Despite this bias, Skelton met Towner's request by offering glimpses, at the start and end of his second pair of lectures, of what a humanities-centered field might look like. He drew heavily on a recent essay by Arthur Robinson, dean of U.S. academic cartographers, on the value of cartography within a liberal arts education. Robinson had argued that cartography's dual status, as both art and science, made it innately interdisciplinary, and that maps are integral to modern history and society. Skelton concluded with a key quote from this essay: "There are few results of man's activities that so closely parallel man's interests and intellectual capabilities as the map."
In other words — and this is Skelton's major insight — maps are rewarding of study in their own right. They are as revelatory of the human condition as any work of art or literature, and should be studied as such, not just to provide data for other disciplines. Just as Robinson had defined "cartography" as a singular endeavor relevant to both sciences and the humanities, so now Skelton defined "the history of cartography" as the singular field of study that "trace[s] the development … of the graphic forms in which" humans have "expressed … knowledge and ideas about the earth."
Skelton further argued that the existing ways of studying early maps — what I have been calling the traditional, substantive, and internal approaches — each dealt only with a small part of map history and as such they could not, even when taken together, encompass this subject entirely. There was so much more to the entirety of this "history of cartography," although Skelton could only briefly allude to what that extra might be. Specifically, he observed that "the limitations to which the mind, eye, and hand of the contemporary mapmaker were subject" were "partly conditioned by social and economic factors. So the study of content and that of form mutually control and support one another." Let me remind everyone of the pronounced divide that then existed between the traditional and substantive map historians who studied map content and the internal map historians who studied map form. Skelton now suggested that form and content both depended on "social and economic factors." I am reminded of a journalist's solution to the great, continuing debate between modern architects: "form follows function, function follows form, and both follow money." Skelton thus implied that the proper focus of this new history of cartography is not map form, nor is it map content, nor is it some facile formula that "it's both!" No. The proper focus is upon the social factors that underpin form and content together.
It would take two decades for the implications of this vision to be properly appreciated even by the few scholars who were directly inspired by Skelton's vision of a new map history. Two scholars — the young internal map historian David Woodward, who attended Skelton's lectures and who later joined the Newberry Library as its first map expert, and the substantive map historian Brian Harley, who was as frustrated as Woodward with the field's lack of intellectual rigor — spent the best part of twenty years squabbling over the priority of form and content. At the same time, Skelton's vision of a single subject matter led the two scholars to embark on a multivolume series whose title, with hindsight, can be seen as paying homage to Skelton's vision: The History of Cartography. In the process, Harley and Woodward turned increasingly to cartography's social and cultural underpinnings, leading them to add more and ever larger volumes and, eventually, rendering moot their form-versus-content debate.
Intellectual Impact of the Nebenzahl Lectures
Skelton successfully conceived of a place for map history that was suitably aligned with the humanities. The work of the Smith Center's directors has since been to flesh out Skelton's vision and to harmonize it with the Newberry Library's general mission to advance the humanities. The directors have consistently looked past geography and history to engage with the histories of art, science, printing, and literature. The primary vehicle for this interdisciplinary engagement has been the Nebenzahl Lectures. The effect, as it has developed over several decades, has been to transform a restricted and conservative subject into a vibrant and interdisciplinary field of study.
The lectures, by themselves, would have had little power to change the field, had the University of Chicago Press not also published expanded versions of them. The Press's now extensive list in map history began with, and has grown through, the volumes prepared from each lecture series. The manner in which the lectures opened up a new space for publishing map history is itself testament to their influence.
Of course, the lectures and their resultant volumes were not the sole cause of disciplinary change. Far from it. But they have been the one constant force giving new shape to the field. The conveners of each lecture series — first Towner and then each of the Smith Center's directors: David Woodward, David Buisseret, and Jim Akerman — might not have fully understood what they were doing, and at times they made significant missteps, but the result is clear: they led the decades-long reconfiguration of map history.
The conveners have followed two simple strategies. Right from the start, they urged lecturers to undertake general syntheses so as to overcome the field's marked preference for narrow analysis. The press's peer-review process has further encouraged synthesis. To be honest, however, not all lecturers have been able to meet the challenge, so that the final volumes have been delayed or even cancelled.
Then, starting with the third series, the conveners have used multiple lecturers to address different aspects of an important yet little studied theme. Woodward thus broke the history of map printing into discrete lectures, one synthesizing each fundamental technique — woodcut, copperplate, lithography, and so on — with an introductory account of the differential usage of the techniques over time. Not all themes leant themselves to a logical design. For the fifth series, Woodward sought to use the long history of the European exploration and mapping of the Great Lakes, from 1600 to the present, to explore why and how maps were made, and with what geometric accuracy. It proved very difficult to find scholars who could address each chronological-slash-thematic lecture, so Woodward spent several months trying to realign potential lecturers with ever-shifting topics. Henceforth, each series has been developed in a more flexible manner: select a theme, solicit reflective, synthetic essays from appropriate scholars, and then, if necessary, readjust the overall theme. For the sixth series in 1980, Woodward began with the theme, "Cartography and the Fine Arts," but ended up with a broader array of lectures grouped under the more general title of just "Art and Cartography."
Two of the early series did not cohere into published volumes because they construed their subject matter too broadly. In seeking comprehensive coverage of mapmaking processes, both effectively ran into the limits of Skelton's vision of a singular "history of cartography." It is not that there is one endeavor of map making that varies in response to different social and cultural circumstances; rather, there are several different mapping endeavors and each should be studied by itself. In response to the failure of the 1983 series, Buisseret asked the lecturers to focus on a particular social context, the development of administrative mapping, in the early modern era. His subsequent series focused on the specific modes of property and urban mapping. Akerman's series have primarily addressed specific social contexts or eras, such as mapping and transportation, commerce, and empire.
These strategies have materially influenced how scholars have approached early maps. Time and again, the Nebenzahl Lectures have led by example. The selection of understudied themes has opened up the field to new questions and interpretations, from intersections between art and mapping to the function of mapping in constructing national identities in post-colonial states.
We can, moreover, trace the effects of the lectures on individual scholars. For example, Brian Harley gave two lectures in 1974 in which he touched on the novel subject of how different people involved in the American Revolution had used maps; this prompted Woodward to solicit a third chapter specifically on map use for the published volume. To fill in the gaps between the scattered instances of map use recorded in the archives, Harley employed theories about the nature of maps and cartography, which began his conceptual turn towards the issues of ideology and power for which he is now remembered.
Alternatively, the lectures have enticed outside scholars to enter the field. Richard Kagan, an historian of education and the law in early modern Spain, had gotten involved, via a chapter for an exhibition catalog on El Greco's legal troubles, with early views of Iberian cities. That work in turn led Buisseret to invite him to lecture on urban mapping in early modern Spain for the tenth series. Pulled into the field, Kagan has since produced several significant works on maps and views in the Hispanic world.
Yet, while the map bug is virulent, it is not irresistible. Many of the scholars who have come to the Nebenzahl lectures "from away" as tourists have not stayed as residents. Their external perspectives have nonetheless transformed map studies. Svetlana Alpers dealt with maps only in her 1980 lecture on the "mapping impulse" in Dutch landscape art, but as the core of her 1983 book, The Art of Describing, her map work has directed many art historians to investigate connections between landscape art and topographical and chorographical mapping.
Finally, and rather paradoxically, the Nebenzahl Lectures have undermined the modern sense of the unity of cartography. Skelton argued in 1966, and others soon agreed, that a humanities-centered approach requires us to study all aspects of cartography, not just those facets of interest to substantive, internal, and traditional map historians. However, as the failures of the 1977 and 1983 lecture series suggest, "cartography" is much larger and more complex than the singular process postulated by modern culture. The success of those lecture series that concentrated on particular kinds of mapping, each with their own social functions, cultural characteristics, and technical practices, has further demonstrated that what we think of as cartography is actually an idealization. From a humanities perspective, cartography fragments into multiple endeavors, or modes, or discourses — call them what you will. In short, to paraphrase Steven Shapin's comment about the scientific revolution, "there is no such thing as cartography, and this has been a lecture series about it!"
Map History: Present and Future, Intellectual
In conjunction with general intellectual trends over the last fifty years, the Nebenzahl Lectures have profoundly reconfigured the field by pushing map scholars to adopt new ideas and interests. The new map history is incredibly varied and ranges from detailed empirical studies to complex applications of postmodern philosophy. Nonetheless, almost all of the new work has had just a couple of concerns, and as such can be grouped into a new approach, which we might call "sociocultural" map history. Sociocultural map historians hail from across the humanities and social sciences. All explore the highly varied discursive functions and cultural signification of maps as well as the social conditions of mapping, for example, mapping by women, in education or, as on the screen, both together.
It took a long time for this new approach to develop. In the Sixties, an anxious time, there was anxiety about the nature of the field; in the Seventies, the anxiety resolved into some hints at new concepts about the nature of maps and their history; in the Eighties, the hints generated a swarm of provocative statements from map historians, geographers, art historians, and literary scholars; in the Nineties, the swarm of provocation gave way to detailed monographs that demonstrated the value of a sociocultural approach; in the Naughties, the sociocultural approach was consolidated as the dominant form of map history. But sociocultural studies have yet to displace the older approaches completely: traditional map history persists, and digital technologies have given a new lease on life to substantive map history. However, internal map history has all but disappeared, as academic cartographers have turned almost completely away from historical themes to embrace digital technologies and informational graphics.
As the field has caught up with the Nebenzahl Lectures, each new series has inevitably seemed less innovative than its predecessors had been and so less effective in pulling the field along. A key factor in these diminishing intellectual returns has been that sociocultural approaches have only enhanced map historians' preference for detailed analysis. After all, a work such as the Reverend Ezra Stiles' map of Catholic Quebec threatening to squash the Protestant colonies just cries out to be interpreted within the particular political and cultural contexts that produced it. This tendency is apparent in the proliferation over the last ten years of books that present images of beautiful maps each accompanied by short analyses; these books invite their readers to construct their own overall synthesis of the history of maps and mapping from barely digested analytical nuggets.
To be clear, this is not a "bad" situation. Sociocultural map historians in general, and recent Nebenzahl lecturers in particular, have generated an incredible array of insightful studies. And there are undoubtedly many further themes that future lectures might pursue from a sociocultural perspective that would continue to advance our understanding of maps and mapping. Maps in the cinema, for example. It is, however, a limiting situation, so that as each lecture series since 1983 has necessarily adopted a highly focused theme, in order to ensure coherent treatment, lecturers have tended to provide analyses of individual case studies related to each novel theme. These later series have been new and wonderful, and they set great examples for the rest of the field, but they have not necessarily been trail blazing. In short, interpretation has tended to displace synthesis. The field is thus in need, once more, of stimulus.
A key issue with analytical studies is that they are overwhelmingly synchronic, being concerned with conditions at a certain time. An unfortunate result is that, when they do need to refer to the bigger sweep of map history, map historians inevitably resort to the outmoded progressive narratives created by traditional and internal map historians. Even sociocultural map historians perpetuate, for example, the naïve presumption that "cartography became a science" in the eighteenth century, a transformation that has been routinely symbolized since 1900 by the "corrected map of France" by Jean Picard and Philippe de la Hire.
It therefore seems to me that it would be particularly fruitful to cultivate a diachronic approach, which is to say the study of mapping over the long term. This in turn requires the identification and tracing over time of the particular processes by which maps have been produced, circulated, and consumed. Some attention has been paid to the processes of production, generally in terms of the technologies and techniques of surveying, and also of map printing. But we need to study the processes of map consumption, whether playful or rhetorical, functional or instrumental. And, as historians of the book have so successfully demonstrated, we must also consider the circulation processes that have bound producers and consumers together. Implicit in tracing all such processes is the recognition that they and their interconnections are not static and fixed, but dynamic and evolving. They change over time and across social or cultural contexts.
From this approach, a future series of the Nebenzahl Lectures devoted to the particular mode of marine mapping might solicit synthetic treatments of the production, circulation, and consumption of sea charts, each in a particular era or context, from the medieval Mediterranean, through the early modern plane chart, to the development of modern hydrography. Each lecturer would be asked to identify and explore the particular contours of the various groups of people who have commissioned and used various kinds of sea charts within the general project of knowing and representing the seas.
Such a diachronic and processual approach necessarily "decenters" the map within map history. All other strains of map history are grounded on the presumption that graphic maps are highly efficient and autonomous devices for delineating spatial relations. But, from a processual point of view, no map can be so privileged. Modern transportation, for example, depends on the installation of artificial landmarks, such as buoys on sandbanks, to which navigators refer more frequently than they consult their maps and charts. A synthetic history of modern marine charting would therefore have to place charts within a complex technological system and delineate those circumstances in which charts have been important, and those when they have not. By identifying the circuits within which particular kinds of maps have been distributed, we unavoidably consider the other inscriptions — numeric, verbal, graphic, tectonic — that were used alongside and in conjunction with those maps. By thinking about how people within these circuits consumed these various texts, we can also make room in our studies for orality, performance, and ritual. More precisely, we can start to tell the genealogies of particular map elements, something that is sorely lacking in map history. We might, for instance, explore the development of the compass rose, not as a feature that changes only in its aesthetic form, but as a functional element deployed to different ends within different, but intersecting, modes of mapping.
To my mind, a processual approach that decenters the map actively re-embeds map history within the humanities, to return to Bill Towner's original idea for a research center at the Newberry Library. The study of maps as human documents, as being part and parcel of human culture, has significantly advanced map history within the humanities. But as we refine our understanding of mapping processes and of how they have varied, we can more appropriately integrate maps with other kinds of texts to understand their respective historical functions. We can finally attain for maps what the book historian David Hall called "a social history of culture."
Map History: Present and Future, Institutional
The field of map history has exceeded the aspirational vision desired by Bill Towner and glimpsed by R. A. Skelton. Skelton's insight that the study of early maps properly "transcends the bounds of disciplines" has been borne out by the sheer variety of scholars who now study early maps, and by the sheer variety of maps that are studied. But we must also remember the warning that Skelton issued in 1966 about the institutional health of such a field. Having noticed that the post-war growth of academia had permitted the development of some new disciplines, such as the history of science, complete with doctoral degree programs, but that map history had missed out, Skelton decried how interdisciplinarity all too easily becomes "extradisciplinarity." Map history was disadvantaged: "What is everybody's business," he observed, "is nobody's business." In the absence of degree programs, Skelton argued that the necessary institutional structures for sustaining and growing the field would have to come from the libraries. Indeed, most of the desiderata he identified for the field comprised improved and expanded library activities. While I disagree with his choice of desiderata, I find myself making a similar argument for the continuing role of libraries.
We might have lost the professorship at Utrecht enjoyed by Koeman and Schilder, but we have gained new endowed professorships at the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Southern Maine, and now also the University of Amsterdam. However, the field's growth is still insufficient to create degree or certificate programs in map history, let alone separate and autonomous university departments. The hard academic work of editing journals and running conferences is accomplished largely through volunteer or poorly paid labor. The problem is that if volunteers are few and not regularly replenished, they fall away and the work grinds to a halt. Volunteer structures are simply not workable in the long term.
In this state of affairs, map libraries are the only viable institutions for moving the discipline forward, especially those with centers for map history. The Smith Center here at the Newberry was the first of these, followed by Explokart, which Günter Schilder founded at the University of Utrecht in 1981 and which in 2013 relocated to Amsterdam. A handful of other centers have since been created in the U.S., notably at my own institution at Southern Maine, as shown here. Each of these centers has its own agenda. Explokart promotes cartobibliographic research centered on Dutch mapping. By contrast, the U.S. institutions have generally promoted public awareness of map history through physical and virtual exhibitions. Those with associated faculty and other dedicated, non-librarian staff also run conferences and seminars.
But the increasing number of map centers should not fool us into thinking that the institutions are stable. Their endowments are subject to the vagaries of stock markets and their income can be raided by the parent institutions. And whatever non-endowment income they have is uncertain, because special collections often appear to be expensive luxuries, distant from the core mission of their parent institutions, and as such are notoriously susceptible to budget cutting.
But what about the Internet?, I hear you ask. It has been revolutionary in so many ways, why can't its power be harnessed for the benefit of map history? Since the mid-1990s, online systems have sustained and promoted communication and collaboration between map historians, although the rapidity of change in online environments has led to neither consistency nor coherence. There is great potential to develop new sites of scholarly dialogue through the creation of open-access journals and resources, such as the journals published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS). Most important, the Internet offers a mechanism for more dynamic, accessible, and collaborative scholarship than print has ever permitted.
The Internet is, however, bedeviled by the same issues of volunteerism, longevity, and resources as the map centers. Much online intellectual work in map history has been pursued by individuals out of the goodness of their hearts, using simple, open-access or cheap applications and hosting; such work lacks institutional longevity. Sophisticated sites require complex applications and technology, and they require much time and effort not only by the map historians but also by programmers and technicians, librarians and epistemologists, copyeditors and marketers. Some of these considerable costs can be met from start-up grants, but ongoing infrastructural costs must either be passed onto users, through advertising or subscription fees, or be met by host institutions.
Despite all these problems, only the library-based map centers can provide the institutional edifice for map history. Libraries have the institutional structures and technical systems to permit longevity and continuity of content for the field. They have budgets and staff who fundraise. Thanks to the Internet, academic libraries are eroding the entrenched twentieth-century division between the sites in which knowledge is created, communicated, and preserved. Map librarians and curators must be part of this fundamental reconfiguration. For the field's long-term vitality, the map centers need also to become sites of knowledge creation and communication, and not just preservation, to host journals and conferences and more fellowships, and to engage in innovative projects, all with the goal of advancing the field. They must continue to provide the necessary scholarly and institutional infrastructures for map history to continue to develop.
Just as in 1966, when R. A. Skelton assessed the "history of cartography," the field of map history is in 2016 once more in need of redesign. We need to rethink its intellectual direction and its institutional structures. In 1966, Towner and Skelton were at square one, in terms of establishing a humanities-centered map history. We have since achieved so much. Our challenge today is not to plateau, or stall out, but to push forward, to bring map history to a self-sustaining position. So much of the credit with getting us to our present state lies with the Nebenzahl Lectures and the Smith Center. Now, recommitting the lectures to the pursuit of new intellectual frameworks and the center to the creation and communication of knowledge will together situate the Newberry Library at the heart of a new era for map history and ensure that Jossy and Ken's legacy continues to grow for at least another fifty years.
Thank you.


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Join the ladies of our church for a fellowship breakfast as a time to chat and to get to know each other better. If you're knew to our church family this would be a great oppotunity to get engaged with other women in our church.
The breakfast will be held at the Burney Guest Ranch and you can sign up in the back of church on Sunday mornings, or talk to April Prigmore.


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Grab the Brass and Gold…Finishes
Well after a long hiatus, grab the brass and gold as these finishes are back on the merry-go-round of residential interiors. Brass detailing on furniture, other types of brass hardware are making a strong sparkling comeback. Now many of you may think brass or gold was never out of fashion. But looking back just about a dozen or so years, polished and satin chrome probably made their first entrée into our homes with the beginning of stainless appliances. Stainless refrigerators and dishwashers made way for more silver and chrome finishes than gold on all types of residential interior appointments.
Light fixtures, or even bathroom fittings in brass or gold give chandeliers, lamps, sconces, and kitchen or bathroom hardware a more updated and modern look to your home instantly. I love the silver and chrome finishes in many settings, but now I love using lots of brass and gold. It's the renewing of our love of antiques and a whole new sense of comfort as brass and gold come out and is dusted off.
It's funny just as we start to think about our seasons changing from summer to fall and winter- cozy sweaters, meals and football, brass and gold can remind us of our mothers and grandmothers homes. But today we can embrace nostalgia yet create our own sense of style with its comeback.
Brass candlesticks are a great way to celebrate their rejuvenation into our home's interior. New side tables, bookshelves and coffee tables are all offering brass or gold base finishes!
Accessorizing your home with these items can be fun and certainly makes you feel good about repurposing and recycling things you already may own.
Worthington Interior Design loves to work with clients making your home all about you. We make your vision come to life.
So if you think you may have an old brass piece or two hanging around and you want to know how to use it among your home interiors, we at Worthington Interior Design would love to help you.
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September 2016
Making Prepping for School Fun and Fresh
Wow the summer has flown by and now you can begin making prepping for school fun and fresh cause it's almost here! While we enjoy the best days of summer in New England dipping our toes in the warm Atlantic ocean and still playing outside until dark. Kids have the time of their lives during the […]
August 2016
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By taking the practices of architecture and meditation as a point of departure I utilize the mediums of painting and photography in an attempt to record the process of the movement towards the inner. In one practice, one uses conceptual thought to build things from materials and in the other, through awareness, one travels from the outside in to the source of everything and every thing... Travelling the opposite way from the finished building as a product, beyond conception into the bright, luminous, knowing, blissful space of the mind.
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|The Carter Mansion was built at Oakwood Farm in 1930
Its builder was significant. Luke B. Carter (1876-1940) was the younger son of the four Carter children who survived infancy. His father, John J. Carter (1842-1917) was as a Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War.[1] He lived the typical Horatio Alger story: his parents died in Ireland, leaving him a penniless orphan, his sister brought him to the United States, but could not afford to support him; but he established a successful haberdashery in Titusville in the 1870's, and invested his profits in the oil business. His Carter Oil Company was a spectacular success, and became a part of Standard Oil.
Oakwood Farm Origins
|Col. John J. Carter - Medal of Honor Winner
After his father's death, Luke Carter gave up a career with the oil company, bought out the other heirs,[6] and became a dairy farmer at Oakwood. He raised blooded Jersey cattle, and in 1921, improved his herd with a world-famous bull, "Blonde's Golden Oxford," purchased from the B. H. Bull & Son farm in Brampton, Ontario.[7] Carter built new brick barns to house his cattle and dairy, spent the rest of his career building his "Blonde" herd, and gave young bulls to the Pennsylvania State College experimental station, as well as missions in India and China.
Luke Carter was also involved in community work. He was chairman of the Titusville Red Cross during World War I, a founder of the Titusville Chamber of Commerce in 1917, a stockholder and director of the Titusville Trust Company, and president of the board of the Titusville Hospital. He was a founder of the Titusville Rotary Club, one of the early advocates of good roads, a director of the American Jersey Cattle Club, and an avid golfer.[8]
Building the Mansion
|Luke B. Carter - Passport Photo
The Carter mansion was completed late in 1930, and Luke hosted his in-laws there during the Christmas holidays,[13] though the construction superintendent was on duty for another month.[14] The Carters then hosted tours of their farm during a two-day farmer's institute which was held in Titusville in February, 1931.[15] The house was mortgaged for $150,000 to the Titusville Trust Company, but it was assumed by Carter's son, John J. Carter, 2nd and his wife, Beth McCafferty of Bradford, whom he had married on 13 May 1934.[16] The house must have been full in 1940, since it was the home of Luke and Beatrice Carter, John J. and Beth Carter, and their two children, Charla and John J., III.[17] Luke Carter had been in failing health for several years when he died at Oakwood Farm on 6 July 1940.[18] Though Beatrice Carter was the sole heir and co-executor of his estate, along with the Second National Bank,[19] she left Titusville for good, to make her home in New York City, on 22 Oct. 1940.[20] The Jersey cattle were sold at one sale on 14 Oct. 1940, and 3 horses, the farm machinery and equipment, office and household furniture were auctioned 30-31 Oct. 1940, sold "regardless of price."[21]
Changing OwnersJohn and Beth Carter divorced. For a time, it appeared Oakwood Farm would be saved by Eric and Greta Heckett, Dutch millionaires who had immigrated to the United States in 1939, and who owned a patent for reclaiming steel scrap, which they managed from offices in Cleveland, OH, and Butler, PA. They bought 300 acres of the Carter property, and took a long lease on Oakwood Farm, the barns and the mansion. There they raised blooded Aberdeen Angus beef cattle, and operated "the farm on a scale as large or larger than Mr. Carter ever did."[22] The Hecketts had hoped to buy the farm, but were "unable to negotiate a purchase," so they sold their 300 acres, moved out of the mansion, and relocated to southern Butler County in 1944.[23]
|Skyline Industries, Makers of the Hula Hoop at Oakwood Farm
Mansion's Architectural Style
|Westover Plantation, an example of the James River houses
The architect, [Walter] Prentice Sanger, was born on 14 Aug. 1881, in Newport, RI, the son of Maj. Gen. Joseph Prentice Sanger and his wife, Frances Kent. He attended Groton School, and graduated from Harvard College in 1905, remaining for an additional two years studying landscape architecture. In 1907, he entered the office of a landscape architect in New York City, then opened his own firm in 1908. He did some city planning for San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1910, and designed worker's housing in Akron, OH, in 1917. He characterized his work as consisting entirely of private houses and estates, some of which were projects costing $500,000, though he said his largest project in the decade 1930-40 was $75,000.[31] Lists of his buildings are harder to come by. He designed a country house for the Bolton family in Lyndhurst, OH, in 1914, and did some work at their Florida vacation home. He also enlarged a country house for the Hay family in Newbury, NH the next year. Obviously he had a suave mastery of the colonial style, adapting it to 20th century comforts.
See a photo gallery of the Carter Mansion prior to the fire.
William Moore, Esq., is an attorney, local historian, and member of the board of directors of the Crawford County Historical Society. He has an affinity for architectural history, historic preservation, and genealogy, and he co-authored the Images of America book, Meadville. He currently resides in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
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[1] Crawford County History.
[2] Titusville Herald, 4 July 1901. Anne Carter died at Warren, PA, on 16 Sept. 1968. [Warren Times-Mirror & Observer, 17 Sept. 1968; Titusville Herald, 21 Sept. 1968]
[3] Titusville Herald, 13 Dec. 1902. He bought the lot from his father in 1902 [Crawford County Deed Book 162, p. 290] and received another lot at Main & Petroleum Sts. from Jecal, Inc., the family corporation, in 1911. [Book 191, p. 468.]
[4] PA Death Certif. 1914-110577; Titusville Herald, 6 Nov. 1914.
[5] Crawford Co. Deed Book 208, p. 364. Emerson had assembled the parcel between 1889 and 1911.
[6] Crawford Co. Deed Book 210, pp. 477, 480; DB 215, p. 81.
[7] Titusville Herald, 18 Apr. 1945.
[8] Titusville Herald, 8, 9 July 1940.
[9] She was the daughter of Frederick H. & Louise (Candee) Stevens of Bridgeport, CT [see 1900 U.S. census, 4th Wd., Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., CT, #293/241; 1249 Fairfield Ave.] and the widow of Charles Francis Emerson, Jr., (1898-1927) of Titusville and New Haven, CT. [see Titusville Herald, 14 Feb. 1927] He was a grandson of E. O. Emerson, the original owner of Oakwood Farm.
[10] Titusville Herald, 28 May 1930.
[11] Titusville Herald, 27 May 1930.
[12] Mrs. Phillips was Alma Sherman of Titusville.
[13] Titusville Herald, 30 Dec. 1930
[14] Titusville Herald, 30 Jan. 1931.
[15] Titusville Herald, 2 Feb. 1931.
[16] Bradford Era, 14 May 1934. The report of the debt indicated the mortgage was assumed by the younger Carters on 2 Oct. 1931, but that cannot be true since they were not yet married. [Titusville Herald, 31 Aug. 1946] DB 316, p. 415 said 1927, which is also wrong. Possibly 1937?
[17] 1940 U.S. census, Oil Creek Twp., Crawford Co., PA, #163, Spring St.
[18] PA Death Certif. #1940-64836
[19] Will of Luke B. Carter, 23 Nov. 1937, Crawford Co. Will Book Z, p. 162. He said he had amply provided for his son in a separate trust.
[20] Titusville Herald, 23 Oct. 1940. Beatrice Carter died in Milford, CT, on 19 May. 1966. [Titusville Herald, 23 May 1966]
[21] Titusville Herald, 30 Oct. 1940.
[22] Titusville Herald, 13 Mar. 1942.
[23] Titusville Herald, 15 May 1944. Mrs. Heckett died in 1976 and her art collection was auctioned by Sotheby's. [Titusville Herald, 11 Oct. 1977] The estate probably could not sell the property for less than was owed on Beth's mortgage, so that may be why it ended up selling it to Beth, who then sold it for $60,000.
[24] Titusville Herald, 19 Dec. 1944.
[25] Crawford County Deed Book 316, pp. 415, 419. The last family member involved with Oakwood, John J. Carter, 2nd, died 19 July 1997 in Warren, PA. [SSDI]
[26] Titusville Herald, 31 Aug. 1946; Crawford County Deed Book 333, p. 158. Saukline sold it back to Beth the next year, who sold it the same day to the Titusville Trust Company, Trustee of Noel J. Poux. [Crawford County Deed Book 338, pp. 279, 282.] Beth (McCafferty) Carter Putnam died in Beverly Hills, CA, in 1973. [Bradford Era, 16 Aug. 1973]
[27] Skyline also made plastic tubing used in making hula hoops. See David L. Weber, "Hula Hoops Put a New Spin on Titusville," in Stella Ruggiero, ed., The Streets that Call Your Name: The Fifties in Titusville, Titusville, PA: 2012, pp. 8-10.
[28] Titusville Herald, 11 Oct. 1977.
[29] Crawford County Deed Book 521, p. 939; Crawford County Record Book 29, p. 84, Book 87, p. 298; Book 418, p. 970. Hasbrouck Sand & Gravel transferred the title to Hasbrouck Land Co. in 1998.
[30] Crawford County assessment record.
[31] The AIA Historical Directory of American Architects, wiki pages, ahd1039123; membership application in online American Institute of Architects Archives; American Architects Directory, 2nd ed., 1962, p. 612; The Grotonian, Vol. 24, p. 275 (1907); Harvard College Class of 1905, Fourth Report, Norwood, MA: 1920, pp. 277-278.


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Desiree Cannon is of California blood, writing country-folk songs since she was able to get her fingers around a guitar, referencing the romanticism of frontier through her songwriting. Coming from a family of cattle ranchers in San Benito county, all long time fans of country music, she recalls fond memories of hearing bits and pieces of the whole labyrinth of the country music catalog. Her songwriting is informed by her cowboy grandfather's sizable record collection and even larger collection of western novels, inspiring her original music. She found her own favorites in the towering legacy of voices that came through Townes Van Zandt, Lucinda Williams and Karen Dalton. Now strongly rooted in the Bay Area, she has started her own music showcase named Run with the Moon, a free show that features three separate acts each month, showcasing roots music from all over world. She has also begun to work with the record label The Long Road Society for her debut album in 2018. Ready for the tides and the changes that keep California so enticing she is looking to the horizon for whatever it may have in store for her.
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Get 2016 off to a rip-roaring start with these 16 tips for maximising your year:
1. Forecast. Do a cashflow forecast to help you put targets in place for the year.
2. Set milestones. Shorter-term goals will let you keep track of your targets more easily.
3. Delegate. Ask yourself: "What tasks could I hand to someone else so I can be more efficient?"
4. Go mobile. Around 40% of all New Zealand web traffic comes from smartphones and tablets; is your website mobile ready?
5. Network. Find opportunities to meet fellow business owners and talk to them about what you do.
6. Invest. At work or personally, make any surplus income work as hard as possible.
7. Rank your clients. Treasure the A-listers and consider giving the D-listers the push.
8. Talk to your team. Whether it's staff members, contractors or even clients, the other people with an interest in your business can provide you with a valuable point of view when it comes to goal-setting and business development.
9. Consult the cloud. Is there an app for that? You might be surprised at what you can manage via the cloud these days, whether it's HR, payroll, trust management, quoting or something as simple as building an infographic about your business.
10. Review. When was the last time you did an employee performance review? They can nip problems in the bud and drive productivity.
11. Stay industry fresh. Is there a trade conference you can attend? Some TED talks relevant to your field? At the very least, subscribe to some online industry blogs.
12. Review your pricing. Are you still charging the same prices as you were in January last year – or the year before that?
13. Review your spending. Are you leaking money each month on unnecessary expenses? Are you failing to invest in the right advice?
14. Chase receivables. Make 2016 the year of no arrears.
15. Take the pressure off at home. Consider hiring someone else to mow the lawns, clean the house or complete those half-finished DIY projects. You'll be more relaxed at home and more energised at work.
16. Take a holiday. Most business owners find it hard to take a break. Book a holiday now and commit to taking some time off – you'll come back rejuvenated and ready to be more productive.
By Sarah Fellingham.