Lab 1 assignment

Map of Narnia

     Narnia brings back memories of reading to my sons in the afternoon on the sofa curled up with our blankets. We also read these books together by flashlight camping in a tent at night before they fell asleep. Since I home educated my sons, our time reading together was longer and we had many more options to read good literature. In addition to reading the books, we've also enjoyed the movies as they were released. Even though this map is about a fantasy location, there is still enough detail to find your way around. A favorite place for my young sons at that time was Aslan’s Camp where they imagined themselves guarding the camp of the mysterious yet all-powerful Aslan. We knew all the characters and places.

This is a brand new map recently released. I was able to locate this map at this address:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.narniaweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/NarniaMap.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.narniaweb.com/2005/05/brand-new-narnia-map-available/&h=1692&w=2244&sz=1374&tbnid=_AfYkutLU2aduM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=119&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dnarnia%2Bmap%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=narnia+map&docid=TQB3on6BOK59jM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rQSBTq2uEovViAKM_-n0DA&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ9QEwAA&dur=2296

Map of Portage County, Ohio

                This map is important to me because I was raised in Kent, Ohio at this location. I grew up in this area with fond memories of building forts in the woods, fishing in Breakneck Creek, long walks in the woods, and ice skating on the ponds in the frigid months. My folks passed away in 2001 and 2002 and left me their home. In enlarging this map to show the detail of where my home is located, the cities of Kent and Ravenna are out of range of this map. (Kent is west and Ravenna is east.)

 Kent was originally called Franklin Mills. The abolitionist John Brown had a tannery in the town of Franklin Mills along the Cuyahoga River where hides could be shipped by raft downstream or sent by wagon. The town of Kent gained notoriety in 1970 when four students were killed by National Guardsmen during a Vietnam War protest. Near the intersection of Powdermill Road and Breakneck Creek was a gunpowder mill which blew up around the time of the American Civil War. We used to hike back along the creek where the foundation can still be seen today.  Here is the URL of the map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?pq=edinburgh&hl=en&sugexp=pfwc&cp=2&gs_id=1a&xhr=t&q=portage+county,+ohio+map&qe=cG8&qesig=apYqwWMoZvAKG_tvBn1y_g&pkc=AFgZ2tlUDTf5zfMtigwbVgwlJyFQHljD7WE5foNiw_Rx6IU9tc8XcogWoC7Uj-D-etBOaqCX0gP5kmrn74vm9UeoLi1r23z3Eg&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1440&bih=815&wrapid=tljp1317080161857013&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8831439cca8f3d07:0x21e654c71227121,Portage,+Ohio&gl=us&ei=dAyBTr6bGKrhiALfw8XuDA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ8gEwAA     

Map of West Middle Earth

                I just love the Lord of the Rings stories. My sons, their friends, and I went to all three opening midnight showings with the kids all dressed after their favorite characters. (I abstained from coming in character.) Even recently, my now twenty-five year old son and friends decided to watch the blue-ray version of the movies while playing Lord of the Rings Monopoly. I joked about how nerdy but fun it was to watch them all doing this and remembering that it was just ten years ago this coming December that the first film came out in theaters.

In looking at this map of west Middle Earth, there is great detail concerning the mountains and valleys, waterways, and regions where the folk of Middle Earth live. One can almost follow the rivers as they go from one town to another. I found this map on this web site:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.graphicsthattalk.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/middle_earth.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.graphicsthattalk.com/blog/&h=768&w=1024&sz=183&tbnid=0p6qr1SUxDPplM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dmap%2Bof%2Bmiddle%2Bearth%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=map+of+middle+earth&docid=O4Jswif6hib3nM&sa=X&ei=av6BTovaBOvWiAK8zKSoDQ&ved=0CEcQ9QEwBA&dur=2290