Summer program offerings and news

Dear RMMS friends,
Good news! Our colleagues at the Washington Map Society have kindly opened their online summer programming to Rocky Mountain Map Society folks. See descriptions below for each lecture and a link to register (no charge) through Zoom for the first one, coming up soon on July 1st at 5:00pm MT. A virtual beer tasting is on the program!

Denver Public Library will have information about opening the Central building to public programs after June 30, so at that time we'll learn more about the possibility of holding in-person meetings again. We'll be sure to keep you updated. In the meantime, please enjoy our news items and suggestions for map-related learning you can do from home. If you have an idea for a program you'd like to see (or present), please let me know. I'm working on the fall speaker line-up.

Sincerely,
Naomi Heiser, RMMS Program Director

CURRENT WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY PROGRAM

Late 19th Century Drink Maps of the UK:
A Virtual Journey and Beer Tasting

Date/Time: Wednesday, 1 July 2020 @ 7:00 PM ET/5:00PM MT
Speaker: Kris Butler, past President of the Boston Map Society, a frequent attendee and presenter at the biyearly meetings of the International Conference on the History of Cartography, and a good friend of the late Bert Johnson
Registration Required:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIscuqppjopGNQIqbj5dLMMj52lh54oL5vy After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please indicate that you are with Rocky Mountain Map Society when you register.

Kris Butler will take us on a virtual road trip across the United Kingdom in search of drink maps and historic beer styles. These lovely maps, created by temperance groups, were meant to shock people by showing in a flash the abundance of places to obtain alcohol in their towns. All of the maps have text on them encouraging people to take action -- usually by pressuring local magistrates to stop renewing the annually granted liquor licenses. And they are beautiful! In addition to seeing the maps and learning about a few historic beer styles, you will hear tales of unexpected adventures in tiny archives and grand libraries alike – including lost maps, missing librarians, hidden text, and surprise encounters.

Since we originally contemplated holding this meeting in a local pub, Kris’s presentation will have a slightly different format from what we are accustomed. She will supply us with a list of three historic beer styles that we can purchase and taste as she introduces them during her presentation. The beers that you purchase do not need to be exact, and if you are not a beer drinker, please feel free to indulge in any beverage of your choosing. The list of the three beers will be shared in a future email.

Professionally, Kris Butler is a lawyer, working as Senior Career Development Manager at the law firm of Holland & Knight in Boston. Her avocations include maps, beer brewing, and beer judging.

Zoom Instructions:
Zoom is a video-conferencing software that can be used from a desktop or laptop (Windows or Mac), tablet, or cellular phone. You do NOT need to create an account to join a meeting. If you are not familiar with using Zoom, we recommend that you review the helpful instructions and video tutorials available on their website. You can also join a "Test Meeting" from the Zoom website to practice and make sure that your video/audio are working properly. As a reminder, in order to join the WMS meeting, you must register (click here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIscuqppjopGNQIqbj5dLMMj52lh54oL5vy) to receive an email with the meeting ID and passcode. If you have any questions, please contact John Docktor at [log in to unmask].

How to Join a Meeting: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193

UPCOMING WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY PROGRAMS

Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception

Date/Time: Thursday, 30 July 2020 @ 7:00 PM/5:00 PM MT
Speaker: Garrett Dash Nelson, Curator of Maps and Director of Geographic Education at the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library will be speaking about his new exhibition.
Virtual Exhibit: https://collections.leventhalmap.org/exhibits/26
Registration Required: Registration information will be sent in a future email.

Mapping the Classroom: Teaching Geography and History
in the 19th and 20th Century New England

Date/Time: Thursday, 27 August 2020 @ 7:00 PM/5:00 PM MT
Speaker: Libby Bischof, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and Professor of History at the University of Southern Maine. A visual historian, Bischof curated Mapping the Classroom for the OML in 2019.
Virtual Exhibit: https://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/mapping-the-classroom
Registration Required: Registration information will be sent in a future email.

ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION

RMMS held its Year 2020 Annual Meeting via e-mail. Our slate of ten Officers and Directors was unanimously re-elected by a quorum of nearly 40% of our active members.

MEMBERSHIP

If you enjoy the upcoming Zoom talks and you're not yet a member, please consider joining RMMS. And if you still need to renew your 2020 membership, it would be appreciated at any time.

Checks may be mailed to Wes Brown, Treasurer at:

Rocky Mountain Map Society
1790 Hudson St.
Denver, CO, 80220

Rocky Mountain Map Society has a NEW WEBSITE!

Many thanks to Vincent Szilagyi, Board member and current Webmaster, for launching it. We are also grateful for the work of Board members James Hensinger and Lorraine Sherry, who skillfully managed the RMMS website for many years.

Please take a look and feel free to let us know what you think!

Board member Chris Lane has released a new series of engaging talks on his YouTube channel. These lectures about cartographic myths are called "Illusions, Delusions and Confusions". Make sure to check them out!

Mercator's Map of the Northern Polar Regions (courtesy Barry Ruderman)

In honor of Black Lives Matter and current movements in support of equity and justice, here's a suggestion for learning about mapping from a Black perspective.

Interview with the authors

You may be able to request a copy from your local library!

Click image to see book excerpt and purchasing information

Screen shot from Land-Grab Universities interactive map

Land-Grab Universities
Explore this GIS-based history project from High Country News about how the United States funded land-grant universities with expropriated Indigenous land.

HCN article describing how the project was achieved.

Invasion of America interactive GIS project allows you to view Native American land cessions over time, and toggle between layers of seamless historical maps from Indian land cessions in the United States (1899) and historical and current land and reservation boundaries.

Screen shot from Invasion of America GIS

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