{"id":58103,"date":"2019-05-21T14:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=58103"},"modified":"2019-05-21T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:26:23","slug":"book-celebrates-work-of-late-brock-cartographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/05\/book-celebrates-work-of-late-brock-cartographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Book celebrates work of late Brock cartographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alun Hughes, a longtime member of Brock\u2019s Department of Geography, had an enormous appetite for local history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 2003 and his untimely death in 2013, the trained cartographer wrote extensively about the geography and history of the Niagara region.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-58105 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Book-cover-History-made-in-Niagara-20192-copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"276\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hoping to honour his passion, Hughes\u2019 former colleagues have come together to release a book of his essays, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History Made in Niagara<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and will host a launch for the publication on Wednesday, May 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book was compiled by Hughes\u2019 former colleagues from the Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, Professors Mike Ripmeester and David Butz and retired cartographer Loris Gasparotto. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone is welcome to attend the free event, to be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at Brock\u2019s Pond Inlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">History Made in Niagara<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can be purchased at the launch for $35 (cash only).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More information about the event can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/101003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on ExperienceBU<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or by calling 905-688-5550 x3484.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Hughes, a longtime member of Brock\u2019s Department of Geography, had an enormous appetite for local history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,4,38],"tags":[1036,5369,7919],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58108,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58103\/revisions\/58108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}