NEMO 23rd Annual Meeting Features Arno Peters DVD and Behind the Scenes "Gossip"

Boston, MA, June 01, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The NEMO (North East Map Organization) annual meeting will be held at the Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston on June 4-5, 2009. NEMO is dedicated to serving as a unifying body for all who use, produce, collect, and market maps and cartographic information in the Northeast; increasing communication between all interested in maps; and working with state, regional, and national organizations and government agencies in dissemination of maps and cartographic information. This year’s meeting will feature a behind-the-scenes peek at the dynamics behind one of the most provocative world maps ever produced – the Peters Map.

Bob Abramms, founder of ODT maps, flew to Germany to interview the controversial cartographer, Arno Peters, and filmed 25 hours of footage. Abramms co-produced and directed the film that was shot by his late mother, videographer Ruth Abrams, formerly of Brookline, MA. The film title is Arno Peters: Radical Map, Remarkable Man. If you love maps and like a good story, the DVD the mother-son team produced is a fabulous story about maps, and how this one particular revolutionary, world-changing map was created.

Bob will not only show the 30-minute film as part of his session presented on Thursday June 4th from 1:30-3:30pm, but he will provide some intriguing gossip as he shares the “back-story” of all that transpired before, during and after the film shoot. Arno Peters died 15 months after the recordings were made and these are the only English-language recorded interviews that Peters ever granted. The film was completed nearly seven years later in April of 2008, and coincidentally (or not) that was the same month the videographer, Ruth Abrams, passed away at the age of 84.

In addition to the footage of Dr. Peters shot in his home in Bremen, Germany, other footage is included from map experts in Oxford, England, and a variety of locations around the USA. The film also includes scenes from the West Wing TV show that featured the map and cartographic critiques that show the tension and conflict that the Peters map generated amongst the cartographic establishment. The Peters World Map was a radical map, and as the film shows, Arno Peters was truly a remarkable man.

For film information go to: http://arnopeters.bravenewtheaters.com
For additional information on the map, see www.ODTmaps.com
You can view a film trailer at http://www.odtmaps.org/pettrailer.htm

Event registration is at:
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/maps/nemo2009.html
The fee to attend the entire conference is $155 ($60 students)
Registration questions: Dorothy Nash – Dnash@OEM.NYC.GOV 718-422-8933

For more information, contact www.ODTmaps.com at 413-549-1293
or email BAbramms@aol.com

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