On Thursday, June 23, Ian Fowler, Director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and Library Digital Initiatives at the University of Southern Maine will present Mapping Revolutionary Maine: George Sproule's 1772 Map of the Midcoast. The lecture will be held at 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Nickels-Sortwell House barn on Federal Street in Wiscasset. Admission is $5 for Historic New England members, $10 non-members. Pre-registration is recommended. To reserve a place, call 207-882-7169 or buy online at www.HistoricNewEngland.org.

Join us as Ian Fowler tells the fascinating story of George Sproule’s 1772 map of the Maine coast. An ensign in the British Army, Sproule drew a beautiful and amazingly detailed map, showing existing buildings as well as topographical details of an area from the Kennebec River to Round Pond and Muscongus Bay. Fowler connects this map to the “Atlantic Neptune”, considered the most important collection of maps and charts of North America in the 18th century.

For a full schedule of summer programs, visit www.HistoricNewEngland.org