There is one discrepancy that I found. We are from the branch of Jacob & Janigje Slingerland ( Suijker) in…
My dad who had emigrated to Canada in 1924, from Groningen, at age 21, always loved running into Groningeers. If…
Welcome back Henry, even if I am reading this well after date. It was in Pittsburgh that I experienced whole…
Picturesque and poetic! Thanks for the look back.
Thanks for sharing this Henry. So many happy memories and I really enjoyed your text and photos.
Hi Henry Thank you for your memories. We have a trailer down the road from the Pinery on Ipperwash beach…
Thanks Henry
Thanks, Henry. Fine pics and accompanying lyrical captions. A few of those beach pictures from above look like they could…
I don’t pretend to understand the dynamics of all this, but recognize the skill and the mindfulness of managing this…
Our first home in St. Catharines on Vansickle Rd. was located pretty much where Outdoors Oriented is now — across…
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This 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.
Most 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.
But 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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