Tag: Terschelling
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My Mother
Read More: My MotherMy mother, Wine Blokzyl, (short for Hebowina Jantina Klazina) was born and grew up in Ten Boer, in the province of Groningen. She spoke the Groninger dialect, while my father talked Terschellings, a Frisian dialect with remnants of the English language. In 1666 Terschelling was occupied by the English for a short time, and because…
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My Father
Read More: My FatherMy father, Hendrik de Jong, assisted my mother during my birth, something I have been excluded from doing when I became the father of seven children. Since I was the third baby in the de Jong family, my father was by now somewhat used to the hectic activities surrounding a home birth. I’m told that…
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Herman de Jong
Read More: Herman de JongForward by Henry de Jong (Henry van Herman) When Herman de Jong wrote this short memoir in 1991, it was as much for the sake of a good story as it had been for all the other stories he’d written. He loved being a character and didn’t take himself too seriously. Perhaps he even took…
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My Father
Read More: My FatherTimes were different then. Workers at farms and factories did not earn much and there were few social services. In the depression era, farmers could barely keep their heads above water.
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Dear Kees and Hittie
Read More: Dear Kees and HittieMy children said: Dad must still have something to do, and gave me a computer for my 60th birthday. You didn’t know that for quite a few years in the past, I wrote a Dutch page in a Dutch-Canadian weekly.
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Off the Island
Read More: Off the IslandI used to be a member of the singing society “Sursum Corda”. Now, in 1972, this society still exists. My brothers Jacob and Tjebbe, and sister Griet were also members. We met in “Ons Huis”. And how we could sing there.
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Mischief on the Street
Read More: Mischief on the StreetAs boys wandering the streets of West Terschelling, we also sometimes did things that were not allowed. Before the 1914-1918 war, there were supporters and opponents of the Germans.
