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• SAVE THE DATE! Please go ahead and reserve SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012, for our next meeting; we'll rendezvous in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
• Our wonderful friends at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Old Salem have offered to host us for a guided tour of their superb cartographic collection. In addition, longtime WPC Map Society member Dale Loberger has agreed to share his colonial roads research: Using Geographic Information Systems Technology to Help Search for Colonial Roads in the Carolinas Backcountry. Dale will use ultra-modern dynamic presentation tools to interact with ultra-old Carolina maps. I hope many of you will plan to attend the lecture, lunch & tour. If you are not currently receiving WPC Map Society notices via email, you may use the link at the bottom of this page to contact us.

• Do you want to read everything you ever wanted to know (or at least everything currently known) about the 1808 Price-Strother map of North Carolina? Well, if you didn't catch the link earlier, I'm afraid you'll have to wait. An updated history of this map is scheduled for publication in the next year or so.

• If you have other travel plans, or wish to make travel plans with a cartographic theme, please check John Docktor's calendars of Cartographic Events and Cartographic Exhibits.

  Also, be sure to check the programs planned by the Washington Map Society: WMS MEETINGS.

• I have a bit of GREAT NEWS to help satisfy your philanthropic urges. The UNC-Chapel Hill Library has established The Cartographic History Fund to support acquisition, conservation, and associated educational programs in the Library's North Carolina Collection and Rare Book Collection. You can contribute by mail or on line. You can mail your donations or direct any questions to:
  

  Peggy Myers, Director of Library Development
  239 Davis Library - Campus Box 3900
  Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
  Tel: 919-843-5651
  Send a message to Peggy Myers
  

If you prefer to make your donation on line, here are some instructions to get you started...

Go to this web site: http://giving.unc.edu/gift/lib/
In the "Please select a fund" drop down menu, select "Other...." at the bottom of the list.
In just a moment, a "Search Funds" link will appear right next to that drop down menu. Click it.
Enter CARTOGRAPHIC in the keyword search field and click "Search". The search results will return The Cartographic History Fund. Click the "Select" link to the right of the fund name.
The remainder of the process is self-explanatory.

Donations to the Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division, via their friends group, the Philip Lee Phillips Society, are also an excellent means of supporting the preservation of cartographic history. You can donate on line HERE, or print your contribution/membership form HERE if you prefer to mail a check. If you choose to donate on line, please be certain to enter "PHILIP LEE PHILLIPS SOCIETY" in the "To:" window.

• If anyone has an interest in organizing and/or hosting an event for the map society, please get in touch!

Send a message to the WPC Map Society