June 5, 2003
Shipyard Brewing Company Supports International Cartographic
Conference
In an unusual collaboration between a local brewery and
a map library, The Shipyard Brewing Company has released its
2003 Summer Ale, sporting a label illustrated with a 300-year-old
map drawn from the collection of the University of Southern
Maine's Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic
Education.
The map, "Mapp of New England," was published in London
by John Seller in 1676, and is a recent acquisition by the
Osher Map Library, located in the Glickman Family Library
on USM's Portland campus. Proceeds of the sale of the beer
will help support the 20th International Conference on the
History of Cartography (ICHC), co-hosted this June by USM's
Osher Map Library (OML) and the Harvard Map Collection.
"We are very appreciative of Shipyard's support of the conference,"
said Matthew Edney, chair of the conference's program committee
and OML's faculty scholar. Summer Ale will be featured at
the conference's receptions.
The conference has attracted over 300 scholars from 30 countries
across six continents. They include geographers and cartographers,
map librarians, archivists, historians, art historians, literary
scholars, and historians of science. For more information
see ICHC 2003 .
The Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic
Education features more than 60,000 maps as separate sheets
or bound in atlases. The collections include the first modern
printed map -- a 1475 hand-colored map of the Holy Land --
and a 1614 map of New England by Captain John Smith. The collections
were formed from the major gifts of Harold L. and Peggy L.
Osher, of Portland, and from the late Lawrence M. C. and Eleanor
Houston Smith, summer residents of Freeport, Me.
The limited run Summer Ale is already receiving attention
from out-of-state visitors to Portland. A Plano, Tx. businessman
passing through town e-mailed conference organizers after
purchasing the ale and said, "Imagine my delight to see that
Portland's Shipyard Brewing has released a special bottling
of their Summer Ale with ICHC label lore."
The Shipyard Summer Ale is available at Down East Beverage
on Commercial St., Portland; Oak Hill Beverage and Redemption
Center, Oak Hill Plaza, Scarborough; Maine Beer and Beverage
in the Portland Public Market; RSVP Discount Beverage and
Redemption Center, Forest Ave., Portland; and in Shipyard
Brewing Company's Gift Shop at the Brewery on 86 Newberry
St., Portland.
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