Tag: school
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De Slingerland Boerderij
Read More: De Slingerland BoerderijHet was een grote boerderij. Ze hadden veel koeien, maar ik herinner me vooral alle verschillende kleuren, rood, blauw, grijs, een helemaal witte albino en veel met speciale tekeningen.
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De Eerste Jaren: 1928-1931
Read More: De Eerste Jaren: 1928-1931Ik ben geboren op 9 april in het jaar 1928, op paasmaandagochtend. Bij de eerste zes was het leeftijdsverschil maar 15 of 16 maanden.
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Sarnia Christian School
Read More: Sarnia Christian SchoolThe art of story telling on display, fifty years after Herman de Jong first stood in front of a classroom and honed his craft.
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Herman and Stiny de Jong read stories
Read More: Herman and Stiny de Jong read storiesOnce upon a time, I’m sure (though I have no memory of it), my mother and father read or told stories to me and my siblings. Probably every day. Whether they were from the bible or not, these stories pushed us to the frontiers of experience without at all endangering us. Only when our own…
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Welcome to Middledom
Read More: Welcome to MiddledomI’ve committed to buckling down for a while to translate and reissue the collected works of Herman de Jong in an accessible format and adding in what family histories I have.
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Bach, blessed, Canada, Christmas, church, Cornelis, Easter, God, Gouda, marriage, organ, Pieter, Rotterdam, school, Stolwijk, Toronto
The de Jong Line
Read More: The de Jong LineFamily History section written in 1986 Touch and turn images for a wide screen view Of my father’s relatives I know very little. I have never seen a picture of my grandparents, likely because one was never taken. I know nothing of how my grandfather looked except that he was crippled from birth with one…
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Bach, boat, Canada, church, college, Cornelis, Gouda, Groningen, marriage, organ, Pieter, Rotterdam, school, ship
The Slingerland Line
Read More: The Slingerland LineThe first Slingerland we know of is a certain Aart Slingerland who came to Berkenwoude and started farming in Westeinde 11, the farm where my mother was born. (Later another family history traced the line back to Teunis Slingerland, baptized November 16, 1653). We don’t know when he came but we know that he was…
