{"id":2436,"date":"2020-04-06T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:03:00","slug":"charting-our-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/charting-our-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Charting Our Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0923.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1820\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0923.png\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1820\" class=\"wp-image-1820\" 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Cruise<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"572\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IA-WIS-Terr-beautiful.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1030\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IA-WIS-Terr-beautiful.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/beautiful-ia-wis-territory-map\/\" class=\"wp-image-1030\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IA-WIS-Terr-beautiful.jpg 741w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IA-WIS-Terr-beautiful-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IA-WIS-Terr-beautiful-388x300.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/great-river-arts.myshopify.com\/products\/iowa-wisconsin-1844-reproduction-of-hand-painted-map?_pos=2&amp;_sid=01e6b08ce&amp;_ss=r\">Wis\/Iowa 1844<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A note from map artist, Lisa Middleton<\/strong><br>Friends,we are all charting the course day by day in this confusing time. It seems if we miss the news a single day, everything changes the next, and the world is upside down. Kudos to all of you who are staying home to save lives! My sincerest regards to those who are personally affected by COVID-19. Thank you to those in essential industries who keep the world turning at times like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maps represent our human experiences, memories, and a thousand little stories of the ancestors who beat impossible odds to create the historical maps we hold in our hands today. Our current circumstances are no less difficult, and we can chart the course together, day by day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:22% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"141\" height=\"192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Lisa-GRA-bus-card-2016_09_26-13_07_40-UTC-e1586203048502.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2445\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p> Best wishes during this tumultuous time,<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/about\/\"><strong><em>Lisa Middleton<\/em>, Great River Arts Artist and Founder<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/greatriverarts.com\">greatriverarts.com <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 49%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"What makes our Museum Quality Prints Special\" class=\"wp-image-2439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"> <strong>Our maps are unique in the industry! <\/strong>You may have loved ones who had to cancel their vacation, or know of a young couple who had to cancel their wedding or honeymoon. Maybe there is a grandparent in your life who has to be alone in quarantine thousands of miles away from you. There is no better way to tell them you care than to send them a map of a memory, a family legacy or even their dream! <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em> \u201cIn her hands, a torn black-and-white 1883 plat of Montana Territory blossoms into a vividly colored snapshot of what the land once was. It remains a map by definition, but by execution it is now an ornate showpiece fit  for the living room wall, touched by an artist\u2019s hand with its essential purpose still intact.\u201d<br>Myers Reese, Montana Quarterly Fall,&nbsp;2014  <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">We invite you to browse our galleries of more than 400 antique, Mississippi River, East Coast, West Coast, and original custom designed map art at Great River Arts&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/great-river-arts.myshopify.com\/products\/historic-vintage-hand-painted-reproduction-map-mississippi-river-hand\">greatriverarts.com<\/a> !!  Enter a key word in the orange SEARCH BOX at the top of the map page to explore the cartographer, the year, region or title that is meaningful to you. We hope you enjoy this gift of art and history!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from map artist, Lisa MiddletonFriends,we are all charting the course day by day in this confusing time. It seems if we miss the news a single day, everything changes the next, and the world is upside down. 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