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Thanksgiving Monday has come and gone, uneventful for us, but surely always significant somewhere or other. This Monday, thirty-six years ago, was marked by huge demonstrations around East Germany which contributed to the fall of the Berlin
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Wall on November 9, 1989. Starting on Monday, September 4, the community that had been gathering weekly, for years, in Leipzig’s Nicholai Church for prayer meetings, took to the streets and fomented the Peaceful Revolution.
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Note to Middledom subscribers
I have enjoyed some respite from this solitary task in the face of summer holidays and beach going, and while doing some much needed home renovations during the lovely month of September.
I am also changing tack, somewhat, through the vast expanses of Middledom, by featuring more of my own work. Rest assured, Herman de Jong / dad will be back.
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Memoirs Wanted
celebrating CC's 80th anniversary. Christian Courier / Calvinist Contact was my father's primary medium for many years, and has been publishing bits of my own work since 1977. Of special note is Saturday's panel discussion: “Unlocking the Kist (Trunk)” on Dutch immigration memoirs, three of which have already been brought to light on this website:
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I remain open to hosting other memoirs on Middledom. If you know of any whose memoirs are gathering dust, please point them towards Middledom (perhaps forward this email).
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