The Map Center, Pawtucket Rhode Island

05/28/2026

Check out my new sign! The logo was designed by last year and the printing was done by on this slick magnetic backing that I can lift and move around. It looks fantastic!

05/27/2026

Sneak peek of the kids section.
The new location will be imperfectly open for business this weekend so be sure to come by and check it out.
545 Pawtucket Ave, at the end of the hall to the left.

05/25/2026

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The big stuff like the flat files are going in tomorrow night, join me if you can! I'll have pizza!

05/21/2026

Closer

05/19/2026

Map Center: take II

05/18/2026

Love to see my friends and colleagues at Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education getting their due at CBS Sunday Morning

The Osher Map Library, at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, is home to half a million rare maps, globes and atlases, dating as far back as the 15th century. Correspondent Martha Teichner explores the world as depicted by cartographers, through maps that are whimsical, political, or inten...

05/15/2026

Thanks to Wayne Miller at Salve Regina University for his Ocean State Stories piece on The Map Center!

‘Strong environmental ethic’ influenced his decisions PAWTUCKET — A map of Andrew Middleton’s life would begin in New York...

05/09/2026

The Indigenous mapmaker brings geography to life by blending layers of history with a perspective others have ignored.

05/07/2026

AAG - Geographic Ignorance, the Iran War, and the End of US Hegemony - All -

05/05/2026

One of my customers very kindly took this great photo of me in The Map Center with a vintage camera.