The New Amsterdam History Center is pleased to invite you to
Catalyntje Trico: A Life in New Amsterdam
a conversation with author
Lana Waite Holden and Amy Ransford
Thursday, October 24, 2024
6 to 7:30 PM
This is a virtual presentation.
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In Catalyntje Trico: A Life in New Amsterdam, author Lana Holden offers a vivid re-creation of life in New Amsterdam and New Netherland in the early 17th century. The book is extensively researched, capturing many of the major events of the time. We follow Catalyntje from 1623, when she leaves Amsterdam, until her death in 1689. "She was the only European who lived in this settlement from the first day colonists stepped off the ship until the English took over forty years later," the author notes in her preface. Catalyntje's life opens a window to the early days of New Netherland.
Escaping the violence of the Spanish Inquisition in the 1600s, Catalyntje Trico takes an unexpected path to the Dutch Colony of New Netherland. In creating a new life in the New World, her family faces challenges of war, harsh weather, and loss. Her poignant story is a tapestry woven with courage, determination, and love, reminding us of the lasting impact individual lives can have, even for generations to come.
Lana Waite Holden, is an author, historian and educator at Sweet Home Junior High School
Department of History and Language Arts. Although she lives in the Pacific Northwest, she is deeply interested in the Dutch Colony of New Netherland. Her joy in researching and crafting stories, and her avid interest in the history of women and other marginalized groups, led her to publish the historical fiction work on Catalyntje Trico and her life in New Amsterdam. She has shared articles and lesson plans with the New Netherland Institute (NNI) and several years ago, she was invited to speak at a NNI’s annual conference where she presented a paper about Catalyntje Trico. Ms. Holden has also served as the Educational Director of the East Linn Museum, in Oregon where her work focused on the Kalapuya tribe, who are native to the valley near where
she lives.
Amy Ransford is Assistant Editor for the Journal of American History and Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Indiana University where teaches courses on early American history, Revolutionary America, women's and gender history, and the history of piracy.
Ransford’s current book project analyzes entangled kinship and trade networks of the present-day Hudson River Watershed over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is especially interested in the ways in which Native, African, and European women exercised economic and political power as traders, merchants, and business owners, and how their commercial and productive activities were central to the long process of colonization. Her research braids together Dutch, English, and French colonial archives with archaeology,ethnography, and Native American oral tradition.
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Lana Holden’s book is available on Amazon or at historicalslant.com.
