Tag: Amsterdam
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Book Views
Read More: Book ViewsBooks are the backbone of who I am. They’ve been my companion for seventy years. They are worth sharing.
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Haudenosaunee Heritage
Read More: Haudenosaunee HeritageBut it is only a little exaggeration to claim that everywhere that liberty is cherished—Britain to Bangladesh, Sweden to Soweto—people are children of the Haudenosaunee and their neighbors.
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In Search of the New Amsterdam
Read More: In Search of the New AmsterdamMost everybody knows vaguely that the Big Apple was once a New Amsterdam within a New Netherland. But that Dutch claim, officially, lasted only forty years (1624 – 1664) before the fledgling city lost its name, morphed into New York and exploded with growth.
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The War Years
Read More: The War YearsChapter 8 THE WAR YEARS Then came 1939. There had been rumours of war for years, but most people didn’t pay much attention to it. They were too busy just trying to keep food on the table to support their families. There was no television yet and not many people owned radios. Many rural people…
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Protected: Brouwer Book
Read More: Protected: Brouwer BookThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Protected: Timeline
Read More: Protected: TimelineThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Unsummer Reading
Read More: Unsummer ReadingThis fifty year overview of the history books that have formed me is only a fraction of my library, but has significance for where we’ve been and where we’re going.
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Father Feito
Read More: Father FeitoIt is indisputable that I have north Netherlands Catholic roots. I can trace many family lines back to the sixteenth century (almost all in the same neck of the woods), and thus, by extrapolation, to undocumented ancestors in the fifteenth century. It’s safe to say then that my people, and their culture, were largely Reformed…
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Our Place
Read More: Our PlaceCountry /province /region /town /hamlet /farmhouse In 1945 The Netherlands was a maligned country, reeling from five years of enemy occupation and a final brutal season known as the hunger winter. Infrastructure was largely neglected or destroyed, the economy was in tatters, poverty was widespread. Elation swept across the country from south to north, March…