Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Recent events have given people all over the world a chance to discover, or rediscover

new hobbies and interests.

Some who've missed their normal lives have found a little culture by making sourdough

bread and kombucha.

Others have taken up painting, guitar, and even podcasting.

One hobby, however, is one almost all of us have done.

We might forget about it as we get older, but it has been a mainstay of rainy days and

quiet afternoons seemingly forever, and it got its start back in the 1760s.

John Spillsbury was born in England in 1739.

He had one younger brother and an older brother, who his father also named Jonathan.

This strange, confusing choice got John mixed up with his brother quite often.

Spillsbury took an apprenticeship with Thomas Jeffries, a cartographer who held a title

of Geographer to King George III.

Jeffries maps were among the most celebrated and reliable of the time, including surveys

of Virginia, New England, and the West Indies.

And their maps were not only used to help sailors learn what resided on distant shores,

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