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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: United States Music and Maps
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 13:26:18 -0500 (EST)
United States Music and Maps http://www.alansondheim.org/maps02.jpg i recently traded for an Irish banjo and here is a medley, http://www.alansondheim.org/lillilt1.mp3 which I quite like, almost like being there (here, where i'm playing) (for Jon Woodson) i also found an original copy of the first geography of the United States, from 1784, by Jedidiah Morse, father of Samuel Morse, painter and inventor of the telegraph. the book is missing the first ten pages, which were xeroxed in. i have no idea of the history of this particular volume; it's strange and utterly wonderful. it contains four _word maps_ - the only other word map i've seen is from 1300s China, reproduced below as well. (note the U.S. map is missing about a third on the right.) http://www.alansondheim.org/maps03.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps05.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps06.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps07.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps08.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/maps10.jpg and a final short quirky Irish banjo piece - http://www.alansondheim.org/lillilt2.mp3 ~~~~~~
