{"id":26028,"date":"2024-11-03T17:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T17:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lietuvoskartografija.lt\/lithuanianmaps\/?page_id=26028"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T18:15:53","slug":"aboutme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lietuvoskartografija.lt\/lithuanianmaps\/index.php\/aboutme\/","title":{"rendered":"AboutMe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"26028\" class=\"elementor elementor-26028\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ca7541c elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"ca7541c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-be10890\" data-id=\"be10890\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02500f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"02500f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 08-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">gallery of<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0708f7f elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0708f7f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Lithuanian Maps<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffe4386 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ffe4386\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 08-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Thousands of uniquely-colored maps of the historic-Lithuanian area<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b78c0f0 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"b78c0f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/lietuvoskartografija.lt\/lithuanianmaps\/index.php\/maps\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Take a look<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ae8ce41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ae8ce41\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4352dd5\" data-id=\"4352dd5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f514188 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f514188\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The founder: Andrius Kapo\u010di\u016bnas<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2281324 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2281324\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I always have a tendency to go overboard when I develop an interest.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>While on vacation in 1988 in New York\u2018s Adirondack Mountains, I found myself in a small bookstore, looking through a bin of old prints when I saw a nicely-colored old map. Because of my interest in geography, going back to when I collected stamps for a few years as a child, I immediately recognized the coastline as that of Lithuania and Poland. The map\u2018s cartouche read: \u201cGERMANO-SARMATIA, VENEDI, et AESTIAE, PEUCINI et BASTARNAE, 1703, N. Sanson.\u201d The store owner said he had no idea what the map depicted, and said he was certain that was why he hadn\u2019t been able to sell it. I had no real idea of the map\u2019s worth, but my $70 cash offer was immediately accepted. \u00a0Today, the same map in good condition goes for $750.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>That purchase was the genesis of what has become (thanks originally to visits to map dealers in London and Amsterdam, and these days primarily to Internet auctions) a gallery of framed, original, antique maps of the Lithuania area all now housed in my Long Island City, New York, apartment, where I and my wife of 44 years live. \u00a0Most maps (dating from 1552) have a transparent label on the glass, listing the date, title and mapmaker.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>My wife,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aileenbassis.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Aileen Bassis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, a frequently-exhibiting artist and much-published poet who sometimes uses maps, has always refused to allow me to post museum-type labels on the walls beneath the maps, saying they would make our home \u00a0look too much like a museum \u2013 my not-so-secret desire! So, as my collection grew, I created an illustrated catalog, with personal catalog numbers corresponding to \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>the labels and locations, to facilitate a tour \u2013 which I happily used to offer visitors. \u00a0For 11 years, in Jersey City, New Jersey, my potential display area was tightly controlled: my wife\u2019s and our friends\u2019 art got the living and dining room walls, I got the hallways, the two bedrooms and one of two bathrooms. My wife said if I ran out of space in those areas, I could always use the ceilings.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The restrictions forced me to be creative: my bathroom was wall-papered with non-antique Lithuanian-area maps, and our second bedroom had a 6\u2019 by 7\u2019 pieced-together panoramic map (horizontally from Gdansk, Poland [and Stockholm, Sweden] to Smolensk, Russia; vertically from Helsinki, Finland [and St. Petersburg, Russia] to Warsaw, Poland [and Gomel, Belarus]) of declassified British military intelligence maps created to guide pilots in the event of a low-level invasion of the Soviet Union. The maps were divided into quadrants identified with the elevation of the highest structure within them, and included heights of smokestacks, TV antenna towers and steeples, surface markings like peat-cutting areas that would help a pilot orient himself, and known \u201cshoot on sight\u201d areas protected by Soviet artillery. In the lower center of the map was a red pin &#8212; the location of my father\u2019s ancestral home in the<br \/>\u017die\u017emariai area, halfway between Kaunas and Vilnius.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>As of right now, in Long Island City, New York, in a smaller space, the master bedroom has a mix of my maps and a large piece by my wife, the second bedroom \u2013 which is also my office, has the balance of antique maps, and the second bathroom has a map of New York City area from space, with color-coded pins showing where I have lived, a subway map, and a great map of Newtown Creek, near which my family lived from 1949-52. This website gives me the ability to display and enjoy the maps I own when I\u2019m away from home, and to display and enjoy the maps I may never own. I hope you enjoy them, too.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Andrew Kapochunas<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ec8b6e elementor-hidden-mobile\" data-id=\"0ec8b6e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8869c3b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8869c3b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.17.0 - 08-11-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" 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