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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><h1><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>September 19, 2017 – Donald L. McGuirk: <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'>“A Survey of the Stars and Stripes on Early Maps, 1777-1795”<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:20.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=253 valign=top style='width:189.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><img width=261 height=236 style='width:2.7187in;height:2.4583in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3052C.35CA32E0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>Donald L. McGuirk<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5<sup>th</sup> Floor, Gates Room<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'>This program is free and open to the community.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=385 valign=top style='width:288.9pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=373 style='width:279.55pt'><tr style='height:321.0pt'><td width=12 valign=top style='width:9.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:321.0pt'></td><td width=355 valign=top style='width:266.05pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;height:321.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>The first official definition of the United States flag reads: "<span style='color:black'>Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." The purpose of this survey is to identify, illustrate, and discuss maps that depict, in part or in whole, a flag meeting that definition.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dr. Donald L. McGuirk Jr. is a retired physician with a keen interest in early world maps, cartographic myths, and early exploration of the New World. He is a founding member and former president of the Rocky Mountain Map Society. He has been a member of the Philip Lee Phillips Map Society since its inception, and now sits on its steering committee. McGuirk has also been a member of the Society for the History of Discoveries for over thirty years. Additionally, he is a member, in long standing, of the Washington Map Society and the Texas Map Society. A summary of his cartographic publications can be found at: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="https://independent.academia.edu/DonMcGuirk">https://independent.academia.edu/DonMcGuirk</a> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>