Want to know where your Thanksgiving food comes from?  Linda Zellmer, Government Information & Data Services Librarian at Western Illinois University, has created a series of choropleth maps showing production by state of common food items found on the table at Thanksgiving for the years 1997, 2002, and 2007.  Produce (such a sweet potato, green bean, and cranberry production) is mapped by number of acres harvested and turkeys are symbolized by number of turkeys per state.  Zellmer brings all the items together in her posters entitled “Where Does Thanksgiving Dinner Grow?”  Also available are the datasets for 2002 and 2007 in DBF, CSV or Excel format.  Happy Thanksgiving!

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Where Does Thanksgiving Dinner Come From?