Around the country in one day

Photo by Bart Moss

Tharptown High School Access Facilitator Linda Spurgeon prepares Tharptown Elementary students for a little globe-trotting on the National Geographic Giant Traveling Map. The University of North Alabama Geography Department and the Alabama Geographic Alliance rent the map and provide it to local schools so students can get a new perspective on the world. This is the fourth year the map has made its way through Franklin County.