The Shipyard Brewing Co

Modern Brewery Age, June 23, 2003

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Caption: The Shipyard Brewing Co. of Portland, ME, has produced a run of its summer ale to support an international cartographic conference. The brewery has released a limited edition of its 2003 Summer Ale in 22 oz. Bottles, featuring a label illustrated with a 300-year-old map drawn from the collection of the University of Southern Maine's Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. The map, "Mapp of New England," was published in London by John Seller in 1676, and is a recent acquisition by the Osher Map Library, located in the Glickman Family Library on USM's Portland campus. Proceeds of the sale of the beer help support the 20th International Conference on the History of Cartography (ICHC), co-hosted by USM's Osher Map Library (OML) and the Harvard Map Collection. The conference began in Portland June 18, and attracted over 300 scholars from 30 countries across six continents. They include geographers and cartographers, map librarians, archivists, historians, art historians, literary s cholars, and historians of science. "We are very appreciative of Shipyard's support of the conference," said Matthew Edney, chair of the conference's program committee and OML's faculty scholar.