-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fw: New York Map Society Invitation Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:30:49 -0500 From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] CC: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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