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Upcoming Events Vol. 16, No.2 “De Nieu Vol. 16, No.2 “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” May 2000 Venema, “Indians in Arnhem? The Van Zandt for her dissertation enti- Upcoming Events Court Proceedings of Brant van tled “Negotiating Settlement: Colo- June 15–17, 2000. Conference on Slichtenhorst”; Evan Haefeli, nialism, Cultural Exchange, and New York State History, Fordham “Leislerians in Boston: Some Rare Conflict in Early Colonial Atlantic University. Conference informa- North America, 1580-1660.” As in tion is available on the web at: past years the proceedings will http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/cnysh/ take place at the Museum Theater Otherwise contact: Stefan Bielinski of the Cultural Education Center of at <[email protected]> or the Empire State Plaza in Albany, tel: 518/4746917. Of special inter- NY. Pre-registration is $25, at the est to our readers will be the ses- door $30. To pre-register send $25 sion on Friday afternoon “Colonial with your name, address and affili- Religion and Culture,” featuring ation to: The New Netherland Pro- talks by Paul Otto, Dirk Mouw, ject, New York State Library, and Paula Carlo. Albany, NY 12230. NB: This year *** everything will start one hour later. The Museum Theater will be open June 17, 2000. Presentation of this for registration and coffee at 9:30 year’s Alice P. Kenney Award to instead of the traditional 8:30. The The Horlepiep Dancers will take morning session will begin at place (as it did last year) at Ni- Adriaen van der Donck’s map of New Netherland, 1656 10:30 sharp. cole’s Bistro on 633 Broadway in *** Albany. Reception is from 2:30 to Dutch Colonial Correspondence”; 4:00 p.m. Additional information Firth Haring Fabend, “New Light June 25–30, 2000. The American about the award and recipient fol- on New Netherland’s Legacy to Association of Netherlandic Stud- lows under News from the FNN. the Religious Culture of New York ies’ International Conference for *** and New Jersey”; Simon Groen- Netherlandic Studies will be held veld, “New Light on a Drowned at the University of California at September 16, 2000. Rensselaers- Princess. Information from Lon- Berkeley. The theme is, “Janus at wijck Seminar xxiii, “New Light don”; and Susanah Shaw, “New the Millennium: Perspectives on on New Netherland.” The one-day Subjects from Old Sources: Find- Time in the Culture of the Low conference will focus this year on ing the Women of New Nether- Countries.” For additional informa- the recovery of Dutch colonial his- land.” Before the afternoon session tion and the complete program, tory through new sources and new begins, the Hendricks Manu- consult the AANS website at: interpretations of old sources. The script Award will be presented to <polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/aans> five speakers will be: Janny this year’s winner, Dr. Cynthia New Netherland Project, CEC 8th Fl., Albany, NY 12230 Voice [518] 474-6067 Fax: [518] 473-0472/474-5786 Email: [email protected] FNN Office: [518] 486-4815; GIRO: J. Venema 6566735 Homepage: http://www.nnp.org De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius• 2 lonial era. The guest curators are Editor’s note: News looking for the following: 17th-cen- Somewhere between completing the Charles R. Boxer, historian of tury paintings, drawings or prints previous issue of the Marcurius and Dutch commercial operations in which feature food OR drink, OR taking it to the printer, the line contain- Dutch household objects, OR cook- ing volume number etc. spiraled off the 17th century, has died at the into cyberspace. The line immediately age of 96. Boxer is probably best books, scrapbooks/recipe books below the logo would have read Vol. known to our readers for his passed down in your family. By 16, No.1 ... February 2000. A correct version appears on the NNP website as books: The Dutch Seaborne Em- any chance does anyone have a our alert webmaster caught the omis- pire 1600-1800 and The Dutch in copy of Jan Luyken’s Het Leer- sion before posting the issue. Brazil. zaam Huisraad? Please contact Donna R. Barnes at tel: 718/ 857- Publications Boxer dead at 96 9542, fax: 718/857-4567; or Peter Zion on the Hudson. Dutch New G. Rose at tel: 914/763-8898, fax: His extensive collection of books York and New Jersey in the Age of 914/763-8275. on the Dutch and Portuguese trad- Revivals by Firth Haring Fabend ing empires is at the Lilly Library News from the FNN presents both a broad and an inti- of Indiana University in Bloom- mate look at the way one main- This year’s Alice P. Kenney ington, where he taught from 1967 stream Protestant denomination Award has been awarded to The to 1979. For an in-depth obituary dealt with the transformative Horlepiep Dancers. This Capital of Boxer, see The New York Times, events of the evangelical era. As District dance group, which is cele- Sunday edition, May 7, 2000, Fabend describes the efforts of the brating its 25th anniversary, is the Metro section page 56. descendents of the Dutch settlers to only group specializing in old *** preserve the European standards Dutch dances. Wearing Dutch cos- and traditions of their church while tumes and wooden shoes, these Research Request developing a taste for a new kind Dutch natives have delighted audi- Donna R. Barnes, professor at Hof- of theology and a preference for ences from NYC to Buffalo, includ- stra University and food historian American identity, she documents ing an appearance on “Good Peter G. Rose, both members of how “Dutchness” finally became a Morning America” and an invita- the FNN, are working on an ex- historical memory. The Ameri- tion to dance at the re-dedication of hibit at the Albany Institute of His- canization of the Reformed Dutch the Statue of Liberty. See Upcom- tory and Art, which will be the Church, Fabend writes, is a micro- ing Events for information regard- main cultural event of the celebra- cosm of the story of the Ameri- tion of Albany’s 350th anniversary ing the presentation of the award. canization of the United States in 2002. “Matter of Taste” is a *** itself. Once again the FNN urges anyone unique exhibition, which brings to- *** considering using Amazon.com to gether 17th-century Dutch paint- David Riker, Chairman of the Com- purchase books or any of the other ings, prints, and drawings in which mittee on Genealogy for the Hol- other products offered at the site to food and drink play prominent land Society of New York access Amazon via the NNP Web- roles. For the first time in America, announces the publication of his site. This will ensure a royalty to this exhibition juxtaposes the art four volume set of books entitled FNN at no extra cost. works with cooking utensils, sil- Genealogical and Biographical Di- ver, glass, pewter, and ceramic ta- *** rectory to Persons in New Nether- bleware; printed 17th-century The FNN also reminds readers that land, from 1613 to 1674. The Dutch cookbooks, manuals of the first ten years of Rensselaers- Directory is being published by health advice, emblem books and wijck papers, published as A Beau- Higginson Book Company of hand-written recipe books passed tiful and Fruitful Place, are now Salem, MA and should be avail- down in Dutch-American families available on the Project’s Website. able in June of 2000. This direc- in the Hudson Valley since the co- tory has been in preparation for New Netherland Project, CEC 8th Fl., Albany, NY 12230 Voice [518] 474-6067 Fax: [518] 473-0472/474-5786 Email: [email protected] FNN Office: [518] 486-4815; GIRO: J. Venema 6566735 Homepage: http://www.nnp.org De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius• 3 eighteen years and lists 1,815 indi- laghan’s “Calendar of Dutch Colo- 3 825 2167; email: cen- vidual or families indicating nial Manuscripts,” this publication [email protected] sources of information and if contains correspondence with the *** known a three generation gene- New England colonies and the July 17 to August 4, 2000 and Au- alogy to be used as a research WIC directors concerning a variety gust 7 to August 25, 2000: The guide. It also contains an eight of problems facing Stuyvesant dur- Boswell Institute of the University page introduction and a 65 page ing his first six years as director of Utrecht offers beginners, inter- bibliography of sources with some general of New Netherland. Corre- mediate and advanced intensive libraries where these sources can spondence, 1647-1653 is published language courses. See for detailed be found. Copies of the Directory by Syracuse University Press in the information www.jbi.ruu.nl or ob- are being donated to eleven family series New Netherland Documents. tain it from James Boswell Insti- history libraries in the New York, Members of the FNN will receive tuut, Bijlhouwerstraat 6, 3511ZC New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the usual 20% discount, if the book Utrecht. Phone: +31 30-253 8666; Washington D.C. area. The Direc- is ordered through the office. fax: +31 30-2538686; e-mail: tory is scheduled to be produced *** [email protected] on a CD Rom by Genealogy.com Still confused about which Hasselt *** in their Family Tree Maker series is the birthplace of Kiliaen van July 28 - August 25, 2000. The In- in the summer of 2000. Because of Rensselaer? Help is now available stituut voor Levende Talen at the the size and cost of the four vol- in the book Between Hasselt and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in umes, the CD Rom would be more America. In this Dutch/English Belgium offers an intensive sum- appropriate for individuals who book amateur-historian Dirk mer course in the Dutch language.
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