Rhumbline

03/29/2024

Proud to support our local land trust Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust—they’ve been instrumental to almost everything you can imagine related to the environment and our home landscapes: stewardship, education, outreach, conservation, and some of the most beautiful places to recreate outdoors in coastal Maine. We hope to see you at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival at Lincoln Theater next Thursday night! https://www.facebook.com/Lincoln.theater.org

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust invites you to the 7th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Maine! Kick back and enjoy a hand-picked selection of the just-released 2024 films, and enter to win great giveaways from Coastal Rivers and Wild & Scenic's Natio...

11/10/2022

No map too small (-: Check out this beautiful new exhibit at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, designed by Tenji Aquarium Design + Build. Thanks to Edward Seidel for thinking of us for this small contribution and to Kate Talano for helping Rhumbline compile these reference maps back in 2020. Just for fun we've thrown in some Landsat imagery over the same extent so you can see the difference between a "map" of coastal Texas's marine habitat and the same view at 35,000 ft ... give or take a little (-; ... Happy Thursday

10/20/2022

Pleased to publish this post, written by Leo Sovell-Fernandez back in January, a primer on how to use the Opportunity Atlas—you'll find a few click-by-click video tutorials and a general walk-through. Thanks again to Swarthmore College's The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and Dr. Keith Reeves for working with Middlebury College Geography Department for making that internship possible.

Middlebury student and Rhumbline intern Leo Sovell-Fernandez reviews the website The Opportunity Atlas and provides a brief tutorial. The website was created by researchers at the Census Bureau and Harvard University and enables users to analyze the geography of social mobility in the US.

07/26/2022

We're pleased to announce that we're opening our *online store* today. https://rhumbline.us/geomosaics Only one thing for sale! But many more to come. Our flagship product is the — beautiful aerials compiled and integrated into one seamless composition. If you live in and want to see one in person, give us a shout. They're pretty neat.

07/21/2022

10/05/2021

First host of a guest podcast "the Arc Towards Justice" on the new Sandbox Atlas series, "Mapping the Color of (In)Justice." Keith Reeves and Swarthmore College alumnus Jack Pokorny look at the story behind the youngest person to be put to death by the State of Pennsylvania, Alexander Williams, a 16-year-old African-American boy. 14-minute listen, 10-minute read.

https://www.sandboxatlas.org/mapping-the-color-of-injustice/atj-1-mystery-in-a-murder

06/09/2021

A new post in our "Notre5¢" series for francomainestories.net in collaboration with Franco American Programs at the University of Maine. Learn about the history of canning. Written by Dylan Smart-Pelletier.

https://francomainestories.net/2021/06/09/preserving-culture/
Benjamin Meader, Emily Meader, Dylan Smart-Pelletier,

Many Franco-American families, as well as many other cultures, share a history of canning. Though the popularity of food preservation and it’s various usages has spread worldwide, to many Franco-Am…

05/20/2021

Thanks to the Franco American Programs at the University of Maine for working with us on another delightful story. Susan Poulin tells us a great story about her grandfather during prohibition:
https://francomainestories.net/2021/05/20/the-lumberman-bartender/
Written by: Susan Poulin & Emily Meader

Susan Poulin brings us to Jackman, Maine for a story about her grandfather—a man who tried to straddle the border during prohibition with varying degrees of success.

05/05/2021

Thanks to everyone who worked on the Allagash project these past six months. It’s not over yet, but feels good to get the printed maps out the door. 99 on the nose!

03/31/2021

Another post for for the Franco American Programs at the University of Maine. A difficult subject, but definitely worth investigation:
https://francomainestories.net/2021/03/30/klan-politics-in-the-1920s/

An important subject to study, but a difficult one—this post examines the role of the Ku Klux Klan in Maine politics in the early 1920s and how it affected Franco-American communities.

03/30/2021

After a long COVID winter, here is the newest post on Postcards from Gus. This time John and Cathy follow Gus to Eggemoggin Reach and Deer Isle. Enjoy! https://www.sandboxatlas.org/postcards-from-gus/05

Cathy Jewitt and John Meader explore the history of Deer Isle and Eggemoggin Reach with Augustus Phillips, downeast Maine's cartographer, photographer, and painter.

03/08/2021

Here's the latest post on for the University of Maine's Franco American Programs—a great story about working on the railroads between Maine and Quebec in the 1900s. Many thanks to Josée Vachon and her brother Steve for their media support, and of course to Armand and Lucette for sharing their stories.

https://francomainestories.net/2021/03/05/life-along-the-rails/

Read a story about Armand Vachon. He was born 1932 in Moosehead, Maine, a small town north of Greenville. He spent much of his life moving back and forth along the rail lines between Quebec and Maine.

02/21/2021

What fun to be on the news the other day! Thanks to Sean Stackhouse once again for taking the time to talk to John Meader, Cathy Jewitt, and I on Thursday this past week. If you haven't checked out "Postcards from Gus" yet, here's a little bit on WCSH6:
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/history/news-center-maine-reporter-gets-a-dose-of-maine-history-from-hand-me-down-map-decoration/97-82cbf60a-b6c6-4bb4-8273-be425187b9b4?fbclid

A 20th-century map maker, Augustus Phillips, was the creator of a hand-me-down map that was on the wall of our very own Sean Stackhouse.

02/16/2021

If you haven't seen it already, check out our new story map for Franco American Programs at the University of Maine. It gives the broad outlines of Franco-American migrations in North America:
https://francomainestories.net/where-we-were/