Klein Map Preview

In the winter of 2021, a tiny PLP miracle occurred. A person in southeastern Georgia found Lane Claghorn Burgess' email address online and contacted her about an unusual map that was in a house they had bought on Jekyll Island. It was an official PLP Plan of Lots, No.5, issued in February 1917, but it was no ordinary copy. Someone in the Klein Camp—a precocious teenager or perhaps a talented grandparent?—had lovingly illustrated the map. (The Kleins owned Lot #123, now Webb, from 1915 to 1937.) The map included delightful drawings of various wildlife, an inviting huckleberry pie and a person wishfully ice skating on the Pocono Lake in September. Then a journey: they sent the map to Lane, who transfered to Gina Jarvis Whelan, who had it examined by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia and eventually handed it off to Jim Zug, Jr. who brought it to PLP. It's now framed and matted and displayed in the reading room of the History House. The History Committee is offering a limited edition of twenty copies of this special map for $85 each. Please sign up in the History House or contact Jim Zug at (202) 288-4644 or jameszug@gmail.com if you'd like one of the copies.