Senators Draw Home States

We all know that Sen. Al Franken can draw all 50 states from memory, but can your U.S. Senator draw your state? To help kick off Geography Awareness Week, National Geographic invited all 100 U.S. Senators to draw a map of their home state from memory and to label at least three important places. It seems only eleven twelve of them were brave enough to give it a try, including Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Susan Collins of Maine:





Michael Enzi of Wyoming also participated, but I think those square states are just too easy...

HT to Marilyn Terrell

Big Apple, or Big Spud?

From Very Small Array, via Curbed.com

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