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Subject:        Fw: New York Map Society Invitation
Date:   Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:30:49 -0500
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Dear Mapsters,

For those of you in the New York metropolitan area, news of a revival!

Please join us if you can, and please rsvp as cited below.

Alice

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Past President Sy Amkraut, former Treasurer Cathe Giffuni and & NYPL Map
Curator Alice Hudson are reactivating the NEW YORK MAP SOCIETY.
invited to an organizational meeting on Saturday Feb 11th.
After a hiatus of 6 years the New York Map Society has been invited to
make its home, thanks to Alice Hudson, at the Map Room at NYPL.

The meeting will be at 2:30 PM. Alice will give a tour of the newly
renovated and beautifully decorated Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map
Division. After the meeting Alice will walk us through the "Treasured
Maps" exhibit.


The next meeting will be held Sat. March 11th at 2:30 PM at which time
members will discuss the future of the Society.   After the meeting,
Sy Amkraut will make a presentation, "Stick Charts: Maps Used by
Neolithic Seafarers of the South Pacific" followed by discussion.


We have arranged to have a meeting room on the second Sat. of each
month.


If you plan to come RSVP to: <[log in to unmask]


Make a day of it and see "The Splendor of the Word" before it closes on
Feb. 12th. It's an exhibit of nearly 300 medieval beautifully
illuminated European manuscripts and 2 videos on how they were done.
Further info: 212-869-8089 or: www.nypl.org