{"id":6640,"date":"2013-09-01T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T13:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapofthemonth.com\/site\/?page_id=6640"},"modified":"2023-02-06T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T00:58:08","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mapofthemonth.com\/site\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are officially Map of the Month, but known as Maps for the Classroom on the web. A family-owned business, we’ve been offering desktop-sized outline maps and supplemental geography resources to schools nationwide for almost 30 years. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Who We Are<\/h3>\n

We started as just brother and sister\u2014and over the years, we have been joined by other family members. Together we all work to make this business support geography education in the United States. We are proud to have influenced a generation of students \u2013and more\u2014with our maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Newton<\/strong> is the founder of our company. Jason is a cartographer who graduated from Rhode Island College. After teaching cartography workshops in elementary schools, he saw that students could learn better about geography\u2014and history\u2014with large, hands-on maps.<\/p>\n

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Deborah Newton and Jason Newton<\/p>\n

Together with his sister Deborah<\/strong>, who is a writer and designer, Jason came up with a large size format and at first published about a dozen different titles, including all the continents<\/a> and USA, Places and Geographic Features map<\/a>. As time went on, Jay and Deb worked together to increase the line of maps to include, states<\/a>, countries and regions<\/a>. Leslie Newton<\/strong>, Jason\u2019s wife, handles all our bookkeeping, and processes all the orders. She is always trying to make your order go out faster!<\/p>\n

We do everything from our office in Providence, RI, including:<\/p>\n