-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [MapHist] Lecture in Jacksonville, IL Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:58:31 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] ------------------ fyi, Midwestern Mapsters! see below Alice C. Hudson Chief, Map Division The Humanities and Social Sciences Library The New York Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117 New York, NY 10018-2788 ------> [Room 121, February - December 2005] [log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027 http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson ----- Forwarded by ahudson/MHT/Nypl on 03/02/2005 05:58 PM ----- Rand and Patricia Burnette To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask] cc: [log in to unmask] om> Subject: [MapHist] Lecture in Jacksonville, IL Sent by: owner-maphist@pop .geog.uu.nl 03/02/2005 05:51 PM Please respond to maphist I don't know if anyone is close enough to Jacksonville, IL (35 miles west of Springfield by way of I-72) to attend this program, but I thought I would post the following lecture: John Power, publisher of the Jacksonville Journal-Courier, will present a lecture on "Early Maps of Western Illinois" for the Morgan County Historical Society on Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 7 p.m. central time at the Strawn Art Gallery 331 W. College Avenue, Jacksonville, IL. The program is free of charge and all are welcome. John has been collecting maps of early Illinois for many years and his collection will be available for viewing at the lecture. If there are any questions, please feel free to contact me at [log in to unmask] Submitted by Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus at MacMurray College and registered agent for the Morgan County (IL) Historical Society _______________________________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.info