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Greetings from the Road!
I’m just about done with my summer tour and wanted to take a moment to announce our August winner and give you some exciting updates!
SEE LISA and Her HISTORIC MAP PAINTINGS in the Fall issue of the
MONTANA QUARTERLY magazine!
I’m excited to announce that I will be featured in the next edition of Montana Quarterly! I will be sure to post links to the article as soon as it’s published!
FALL SHOW SCHEDULE! Tell Your Neighbors, Tell Your Friends! A hand-painted historic map is a memorable GIFT!
Issaquah Salmon Days, Issaquah WA (waiting list) October 24-26:
Best of the Northwest, Seattle WA November 21,22,23:
Custer Show, Spokane WA November 28,29,30:
Under the Big Sky Holiday Festival, Missoula MT
December 14: Made Fair, Missoula MT
BOOK REVIEW OF THE MONTH 
There’s only one book on my list this month…and I am OH SO excited to read it! This is a thrilling tale in to the BLACK MARKET of ANCIENT DOCUMENTS! “The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.
Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him.
Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption.
The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.”
AUGUST RAFFLE WINNER
Thank you for your interest in me and sharing your love for maps and art. It is an honor to share my story with you!
