{"id":2,"date":"2008-02-06T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T02:12:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:16:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Great River Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cropped-Pat-4.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pat Middleton is the founder\/publisher of the Mississippi River Home Page at www.greatriver.com<\/a> and Great River Publishing which has produced quality river heritage and natural history books since 1987.\u00a0 All our river books, guidebooks, and river art can be seen at our Online Catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since 1989, Pat has shared her passion for the heritage and natural history of the river with passengers on the great cruising steamboats of American Rivers as a guest lecturer and natural history guide. She frequently speaks to teachers, students, and the general public about life along the Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Discover! America’s Great River Road, Vol. 1\u00a0<\/span>guides the traveler. \u00a0 from Minneapolis\/St. Paul to Dubuque. Vol. 2<\/strong> continues the journey from\u00a0Dubuque to St. Louis.<\/span>\u00a0Volume 3<\/strong> passes through the\u00a0French Historic District and explores the Ohio River bottoms and the Delta. <\/span><\/span>Vol. 4<\/span> <\/b><\/span>follows the river through the deep south to the Gulf of Mexico.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Discover!<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Each book includes notes on special events, heritage and river lore, natural history and recreation along America’s Great River Road.<\/span><\/p>\n

Call 608-385-2510 to query or click this link<\/a> to order from our\u00a0<\/span>web site!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We hope you enjoy visiting The Mississippi River Home Page at www.greatriver.com<\/a>!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABOUT THE MAP ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lisa Middleton began painting historic maps of the Mississippi River in 1996. Today, her hand-painted maps include her own distinctive Custom map creations and collections that include the Midwest, Northwest, Southwest, Southeast, and New England.<\/p>\n

See and order from her entire collection HERE<\/a>!\u00a0See Lisa’s informative blog and sign up for her entertaining newsletter at greatriverarts.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"stairway<\/a>WHAT THE PRESS ARE SAYING ABOUT LISA’s FINE ART MAPS….<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\n

\u201cThe most interesting appeal is the color and beauty of the maps. This is where Lisa Middleton\u2026loves to use her special talent in color, blending and her sensitivity to the joys that maps hold for us as collectors.\u201d Sandy Erdman, Rochester Post Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s turned [that] fascination into an art \u2014 finding, restoring and replicating old maps, then creating art on top of the prints.\u201d Abby Eisenburg, Winona Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMiddleton is doing more than making art, she\u2019s helping to preserve history.\u201d
\nChris Peterson, Hungry Horse News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"xmasartad\"<\/a>\u201cIn her hands, a torn black-and-white 1883
\nplat of Montana Territory blossoms into a
\nvividly colored snapshot of what the land
\nonce was. It remains a map by definition, but
\nby execution it is now an ornate showpiece fit
\nfor the living room wall, touched by an artist\u2019s
\nhand with its essential purpose still intact.\u201d
\nMyers Reese, Montana Quarterly Fall,<\/em> 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany different things can make a map
\ninteresting. Sometimes many places on the
\nmap have disappeared\u2026Sometimes a map
\nreality and fantasy\u2026\u2019I like to work on maps
\nwith history, maps of places people love, maps
\nthat have stories,\u2019Middleton said.\u201d
\nBig River Magazine, Summer 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pat Middleton is the founder\/publisher of the Mississippi River Home Page at www.greatriver.com and Great River Publishing which has produced quality river heritage and natural history books since 1987.\u00a0 All our river books, guidebooks, and river art … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}