photo courtesy of Davidson
College Archives
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CURRENT
AND FUTURE EVENTS
No
WPCMS sponsored events currently on the calendar. However, please keep
reading!
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Other
local events of interest to WPCMS members:
JOHN
LAWSON: A CAROLINIAN'S LIFE & TIMES.
October
9-10, 2009--Commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the publication of
John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina, to be held at the North
Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.
REGISTER
NOW! The brochure with registration information and symposium schedule
is now available by clicking here.
SOCIETY
FOR THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES
October
11-13, 2009-- Society for the History of Discoveries Annual Meeting. Join
SHD and then join fellow SHD members for a famous Eastern North
Carolina style barbecue dinner on Saturday,
October 10, at the Capitol. SHD
will hold its 50th annual meeting from October 11-13, 2009 in Raleigh,
North Carolina. The SHD
meeting will immediately follow the October 9-10 John Lawson Symposium, and will be held in the same
venue, the North
Carolina Museum of History. All the schedule information you need
for the combined Lawson Symposium and SHD meeting can be found
here. (SHD Meeting registration is not yet open, but will be
posted on their web site and mailed to members).
NOTE:
Although the Lawson Symposium and SHD Annual Meeting are conveniently
scheduled back-to-back, registration for each event is separate.
OLD
SALEM SATURDAY SEMINAR: MAPPING THE EARLY SOUTH
October
17. 2009-- MESDA Saturday Seminar in Old Salem. Registration
form and preliminary program are available by clicking
here. Speakers will
include Margaret Pritchard of Colonial
Williamsburg and Henry Taliaferro of Cohen
& Taliaferro, LLC. They co-authored a superb book on the topic of
colonial cartography, Degrees of Latitude (Amazon customer
review available here).
Tour
the award-winning exhibit online (scroll about 3/4 down the
page for the Map Exhibit).
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Please
check John Docktor's Calendars
of Cartographic Events and Exhibitions for additional programs of interest.
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The
very best available on line collection of high resolution images of maps of
or relating to North Carolina can be accessed at the
NC
Maps Project web site.
It
is an absolutely marvelous collaborative project between the North Carolina
Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, the State Archives in Raleigh, and the Outer
Banks History Center in Manteo.
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You can read synopses of our previous meetings by clicking
here.
Send your
inquiries, suggestions, or comments by using link below (if single click
doesn't work, try a double click).
E-mail
William P. Cumming Map Society
