Quirky thoughts from an old man.
I was a map collector. In 2012 I donated the collection to The School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. Every once in a while they ask me to come down and talk about the maps and I’m always willing to do it. On November 1, 2019 they are reopening the derivative exhibition “Imagined …
The opening of the Changing Boundaries map exhibit has been posted on the CECUT web site. You can help me a bit by going to the link and liking it on Facebook. Do it now. If you are in the San Diego area this Friday night come across the border for a pretty cool bi-cultural …
The CECUT Museum in Tijuana, BC is going to host the Changing Boundaries Map Exhibit beginning in February 2012. The Imax theater at CECUT The opening reception and panel discussion are on Friday,February 24. Look at this beautiful picture of the museum and mark your calendar. Tijuana is not what it used to be or …
The announcement card for the opening of the Changing Boundaries Map Exhibit at the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Tucson: Reverse: It is on Wednesday June 8 at 5:00 pm. The exhibit is at the museum thru Thanksgiving. It will be interesting to see if we can get a conversation started, in Arizona, about the …
The Changing Boundaries Exhibit will be in Arizona this Summer and Fall. We will be installing the exhibit in Tucson at the Arizona Historical Society Museum from May 18 to September 29, 2011. It then opens in Tempe at the ASU School of Transborder Studies on October 4 through December 2, 2011. For these important …
I am curating an exhibition of maps showing the evolution of the US-Mexico Border. Changing Boundaries has its own web site and I blog about it occasionally. Tecate Exhibition October 1 to November 4 2010 University of San Diego April to June 2010 Changing Boundaries Exhibit Web Site Cal State LA Exhibit January 2011 Arizona …
The Changing Boundaries Map Exhibit that I curate is going to be at the CAREM museum in Tecate, BC, Mexico in October.
If you like maps you’ll love this link to Strange Maps a blog specializing in Strange Maps. I have dates for my Frontier Map Exhibition at USD. Opening reception and talk April 21, 2010. Mark your calendars. I wonder if California as an Island qualifies as a strange map?
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” Herman Melville Melville who wrote Moby Dick among other classics also made this cryptic comment. I was impressed that he ended the sentence with a verb. The map is from the cover of The Mapping of California as an Island. it was part of …
“The joy of map reading has been swallowed whole into the maw of GPS technology.” Simon Winchester in Knowing What We Know Whatever happened to Gas Station Maps or in LA the Thomas Guide? On the other hand we can always find where we need to be with out ever knowing where we are going. …