This new site for the William P. Cumming Map Society is currently under construction. If you are looking for all the wonderful content from our previous web site (www.cummingmapsociety.org)... you are pretty much out of luck. The domain expired (I was not the domain owner) and I was unable to save much of the information contained on all the pages. I did retreive some of our Society's web content via the Wayback Machine. One day, I hope to import it to this new and permanent web site.

• SAVE THE DATE!
  Saturday morning, March 10, 2012, in the Wilson Library at UNC-Chapel Hill:
  The Moseley Manuscript of North Carolina of 1737: Its History and the Hunt for Its Provenance,
  presented by Michael McNamara of Williamsburg, VA, independent scholar and collector of all things Southern.
  

• 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