This remarkable special Google Lit Trip project brings great Literary Landmarks to Google Earth. Among the Literary Landmarks in this growing collection are several 3D drawings of notable locations from great works of literature such as the courthouse that served as the model for the courtroom in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird.

About the Contributor...

Beryl Reid loved to draw as a child and graduated from Massachusetts College of Art with a degree in Photography and Painting in 1974. She earned a Master's Degree in Educational Technology in 1990.  Beryl became a teacher of Humanities, Social Studies, 5th Grade and Computers during her 35 years of teaching in the Billerica Public Schools in Massachusetts.

She believes that teaching is mostly about learning, so she recently began to learn to use a 3D modeling tool called SketchUp in order to create models of interesting buildings so they could be placed in Google Earth's 3D building layer. Beryl realized that writers often lived in places as interesting as they were, so she created "Literary Landmarks". The collection was sparked by an early in her life visit to the incredible home of one of her favorite writers, Mark Twain. Each building is a story and it is hoped the model will help readers imagine the time and place of a great author.

See more of Beryl Reid’s incredible 3D Buildings.