{"id":1836131,"date":"2025-01-23T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1836131"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:24:01","slug":"rivers-roads-the-art-of-getting-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/01\/rivers-roads-the-art-of-getting-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers & Roads: The Art of Getting There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Almost missed this. Rivers & Roads: The Art of Getting There<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is an exhibition in the corridor gallery of Harvard\u2019s Pusey Library that runs until 31 January 2025. It\u2019s about getting from point A to point B over the centuries, and that hasn\u2019t always meant using a map with a grid system. For more, see the Harvard Gazette<\/em>\u2019s interview with the exhibit\u2019s curator, Molly Taylor-Poleskey<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost missed this. Rivers & Roads: The Art of Getting There is an exhibition in the corridor gallery of Harvard\u2019s Pusey Library that runs until 31 January 2025. It\u2019s about getting from point A to… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,752],"tags":[50,21,610],"class_list":["post-1836131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-navigation","tag-exhibitions","tag-harvard","tag-roads","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5585,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2013\/06\/american-rivers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1836131,"position":0},"title":"Map of All American Rivers","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 June 2013","format":"link","excerpt":"Nelson Minar has created a vector tile map of all the rivers in the United States. 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