Every map tells a story. The map being unveiled at 10 a.m. today in the history museum’s entrance of the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal tells a homecoming story with a twist of Queen ...
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Painting Our Planet

There is no single, prescriptive way to produce a map. Over centuries, maps have been carved into tablets and walls, woven into tapestries, painted on animal skins, etched into plates, printed in ...
Crown Point resident Meg DeMakas was fascinated as a teenager by a giant panoramic map painting hanging in the old Hammond Public Library. It depicted the Calumet area from the Indiana Dunes region ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, technology is more prevalent than ever. Ski resorts use apps to update lift statuses on the mountain, local buses use apps ...
The name “James Niehues” may not strike home immediately, but if you’re a skier, you’ve undoubtedly held his work. Niehues has painted roughly 255 ski trail maps, for 175 different resorts, including ...
LOVELAND – If you’ve ever found your way on the ski slopes, chances are you used Jim Niehues’ work. When his mother gave her teenage son an oil-painting set during his three-month, on- his-back bout ...