Vol.6, No.2 Firth H. Fabend, Editor Esme E. Berg, Production Editor Letter from NAHC President and Executive Director Dear NAHC Patrons, Donors, and Friends, Welcome to the Spring, 2023, NAHC Newsletter! This publication is our 15th Newsletter dating back to the inaugural Volume 1 published in 2017. All prior Newsletters …
Over the past year, the Mapping Early NY project has expanded to include maps of Long Island, Brooklyn, and Queens that give us a greater understanding of the Native American Ancestral Lands, and the Dutch and English Colonial settlements.
Spring in New York unofficially begins when the Park Avenue tulips bloom. The underground rail lines beneath the avenue heat the ground and give the bulbs and New Yorkers a head start on the season. In mid-May, when the leaves yellow, the Fund invites the public to its annual BYOS (Bring Your Own Shovel) Big Dig to gently gather the bulbs. The following fall, those 66,000 bulbs find their way into tree pits, flower boxes and front and backyard gardens.
In 2009, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson into today’s New York Harbor, the Orange Blushing Apeldoorns, Darwin Hybrids, filled the Park Avenue malls.
For its part, the New York City Parks Department plants 90,000 tulips throughout the city each year. At the Conservatory Garden, 105th Street and Fifth Avenue, with half the garden
under renovation, “only” 10,000 will grace the garden this spring.
The study of past environments can benefit society today by providing cautionary tales and stories of resilience. Dr. Chelsea Teale at a conversation with Dagomar Degroot about it.
A treasure trove of letters that were intercepted at sea by the British have been stored in the British National Archived until now.
Take a Guided Walk Through Central Park’s Dutch Haarlem When: Tuesday, June 6, 6:00 – 7:30 pm (Rain date, June 7)Where: Central Park and 110th Street Join Sara Cedar Miller for a guided tour Artist, Len Tantillo’s painting of the de Forest / Montagne bouwrie based on documents describing the …
A Talk by Christopher Bishop In 2020, a seventeenth-century portrait of Dutch Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp by the Dutch Golden Age master Jan Lievens was found hung above the mantel of a home in a small Massachusetts town. Neither the owner nor a local dealer had any idea who the artist or sitter …
by Ina Lee Selden It is late August and early September of 1664 in New Amsterdam, and Lisbeth Vrooman, housewife and mother of three, is writing letters to a friend in Leiden. It is the time of the English takeover of New Netherland. She recounts her growing insecurities about the …
A new book is recommended to NAHC followers: Sara Cedar Miller, in her comprehensive new work, Before Central Park, devotes Chapter 1 to New Amsterdam. She recounts how, in 1637, Isaac de Forest and his brother-in-law Dr. Johannes de la Montagne, with permission from the Dutch West India Company, moved …
Two hundred years later, in 1982, President Ronald Reagan officially proclaimed 19 April Dutch-American Friendship Day. Two centuries of diplomatic relations between the two countries constituted “the United States’ longest unbroken, peaceful relationship with any foreign country.” Every year the American Embassy in The Hague, the Dutch Embassy in Washington, …
