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Jack Reed. Senator. Cartographer.
National Geographic posed an interesting challenge to kick off Geography Awareness Week. They invited all 100 US Senators to draw a map of their home state and to mark at least three important places. Rhode Island’s Jack Reed displayed a fine sense of the geographic nuances of the state’s island-pocked coastline.
Visit National Geograpahic’s online gallery to see all the maps, including James Risch R-Idaho, who gets all Rand McNally, and Michael Enzi R-Wyoming, who thinks his state is like, so square.
I wasn’t aware that there was a Geography Awareness Week. There it is.
Image from National Geographic
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I want to get all Rand McNally.
Nice story.
— MS · Nov 30, 12:23 PM · #