as i grew closer, the desk, i learned belonged to james wilson of bradford, vermont, a town north along the connecticut river. inching closer, because i wasn't familiar, the label stated that wilson was the united states' first globemaker. and one of wilson's early globes sat there in a case in a plexicase display. it seems strange that the out of the way place is bradford in the early 19th century that globe making, the first american globes were being made, and i really left the museum that day really enthralled with the thought of learning more about james wilson. how could a globemaker have worked in the upper connecticut valley in the early 1790s? how did he learn about globe making? what were the sources of his information? for that matter, not just his information, but inspiration? what gave him the project of being a globemaker at the time? as i learned, others -- and you can see here -- go back. as i learned, others in the hinterlands had tried to make globes. new hampshire shoe quln maker and surveyor and farmer, association, sam lane made this ideocrattic formation of a terre