Volume 16, No. 1 "De Nieu Nederlandse Marcurius" February 2000 tradition of Jan van Eyck (ca.1390– ski at <[email protected]> Upcoming Events 1441) and Hugo van der Goes (ca. or tel: 518/4746917. April 23, 2000. Return of de 1440–1482) is also included. The *** Halve Maen at 3:00 p.m. on Fri- Library is located at 29 East 36th September 16, 2000. Rensselaers- day. The ship will remain in Al- Street; tel: 212/6850610. For more wijck Seminar xxiii, “New Light exhibit information go to: on New Netherland.” This year the <www.morganlibrary.org> Seminar will start one hour later, *** i.e., at 10:30 instead of the usual Until May 7, 2000. At the North 9:30. The full program will appear Carolina Museum of Art in in the next issue. Raleigh is a special viewing of *** “Like Father, Like Son? Portraits June 25–30, 2000. The American by Frans and Jan Hals.” Father and Association of Netherlandic Stud- son, teacher and student: these rela- ies announces its next International tionships are the focus of this two- Conference for Netherlandic Stud- painting exhibition. Frans Hals’ ies to be held at the University of masterful Willem Coymans from California at Berkeley with the the National Gallery of Art appears theme, “Janus at the Millennium: alongside the NCMA’s “Portrait of Perspectives on Time in the Cul- Replica of de Halve Maen under full sail a Gentleman,” arguably the best ture of the Low Countries. ”Keep bany for two weeks giving tours to picture by the artist’s son Jan. an eye on the AANS website (see school groups. It will depart Al- Nearly identical in their dimen- Websites below) for additional in- bany on May 10th to make an ap- sions and the subject’s pose, and formation. pearance in Monmouth County, NJ. dating just a year apart, both of *** these half-length portraits may re- News Until April 30, 2000. “From present members of the same fam- Announcing the formation of the Bruegel to Rubens: Netherlandish ily. Seen in tandem, the two Society for Netherlandic History and Flemish Drawings.” At the pictures allow viewers to compare (SNH). The Society’s main pur- Morgan Library in New York. Sur- their brushwork, palette, and im- pose is to provide a forum where veying the finest Northern Euro- agery and to assess their overall specialists of Dutch and Belgian pean drawings in the Library’s quality. For further information collections. The exhibition features consult <ncartmuseum.org> Society for Netherlandic History over one hundred works spanning *** history can present their work and June 15–17, 2000. Conference on the Gothic through the Flemish Ba- exchange ideas. The Low Coun- New York State History, Fordham roque periods. A small selection of tries have traditionally interested drawings by artists working in the University. Contact: Stefan Bielin- 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 students of history for a variety of ploring this region. The site con- ited and annotated by New Nether- reasons. The artistic achievements tains everything from the Flemish land Project Director, has been dis- of the early modern era, the com- national anthem to the latest events tributed. mercial primacy of Antwerp and celebrating the 500th birthday of *** Amsterdam, and the Dutch mari- Charles V. Hennie Newhouse, office manager time exploits all appeal to our *** of the Friends of New Netherland, imagination. But these, obviously, <www.taalunie.org> “De Taalunie reported that the members, who re- are only highlights. The SNH will heeft tot doel de integratie van Ne- side in 33 states and abroad, now bring together students and special- derland en de Nederlandse gemeen- number nearly 500. She urged pre- ists interested in all aspects of schap in België op het gebied van sent members to recruit others. Netherlandic history, varying from de Nederlandse taal en letteren in Secretary Elisabeth Funk remarked the Middle Ages to the twentieth de ruimste zin.” that FNN products, on sale at century, and from the Betuwe to events and via the Project’s Web- Batavia. The first conference is News from the FNN site, serve a dual purpose: to raise scheduled to take place in May The Annual Meeting of the Friends funds for the Project and to draw 2001. Queries can be addressed to of New Netherland was held on attention to its work. She asked Willem Klooster, secretary Saturday, January 22, 2000, at the those who shop on line for books, Society for Netherlandic History New York Genealogical and Bio- toys, electronics, tools, etc., to ac- University of Southern Maine graphical Society in New York cess Amazon via the NNP Web- Department of History City. More than 50 attended, site, which will ensure a royalty to Portland, ME 04104-9300 among them representatives of the FNN at no extra cost to the client. Tel: 207/7805323 or 8747996 Consulate of the Netherlands in The Website’s primary purpose, email: [email protected] New York, the Acorn Foundation, however, is educational and infor- *** the Holland Dames, the Holland mational. The first ten years of Dr. David W. Voorhees, director Society, the Dutch Settlers Society Rensselaerswijck papers, published of the Papers of Jacob Leisler, an- of Albany and other organizations. as A Beautiful and Fruitful Place, nounces that the Project has re- Treasurer John van Schaick pre- have recently become available on ceived a Gilder Lehrman grant for sided in the absence of president the Project’s Website. conducting research at the New Paulson and vice-president Hage- *** York Historical Society; also, that man. He reported that a cut in the In the absence of nominating chair Göttingen University has received NEH grant for this cycle notwith- Hageman, the treasurer presented full funding from the German gov- standing, FNN’s financial position the Board of the Friends of New ernment to conduct European re- is presently solid, thanks to the gen- Netherland for 2000–2001: John search for Leisler papers. erosity of private and corporate do- van Schaick, president; Carol Hage- nors. Peter Rose, reporting for man, vice-president; William Websites Corporate Circle chair Virginy Crotty, treasurer; Rev. William Ly- <polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/aans> is the Thole, announced that at the sug- decker, secretary; Coen Blaauw; new website of the American Asso- gestion of Consul General Bob Andrew Brink; Anneke Bull; Shir- ciation for Netherlandic Studies. Hiensch and funded entirely by the ley Dunn; Arthur Fontijn; Kathy AANS is a university-level organi- Consulate, an annual series of Lyon; Dennis Maika; Peter Paul- zation that promotes the study of booklets will be published, entitled son; Ruth Piwonka; Len Tantillo; the language, literature, history, art Annals of New Netherland. These Fred Tibbitts; Tara van den Hout; history and general culture of the will be distributed among past and and Charles Wendell. Low Countries. present members of the Corporate *** *** Circle and be used for further fund In his report on the project, Direc- <www.flanders.be> is a good place raising. The first booklet, entitled tor Gehring showed the newly pub- to start for those interested in ex- The Essays of A. J. F. van Laer, ed- lished volume of Fort Orange 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 Records and enumerated several Editor’s note re: next in line. The NYS Library has Publications made funds available for indexing For a view of poverty and charity VIRTUAL BOOK STORE Shop Amazon/Support the FNN: Point future volumes. Dr. Gehring and in Dutch Beverwijck and British your browser to <www.nnp.org> and Janny Venema have been ap- Albany that contrasts sharply with select “Book Store.” Scroll down and pointed to two task forces by Al- click on the desired title or enter your the practices of New England and “search”; Both actions automatically bany’s mayor in anticipation of connect you with Amazon for discount that city’s 350th anniversary. Dr. prices to you and royalties to the FNN. Or click on Amazon directly from Gehring gave talks in the U.S. and “Book Store” for all it has to offer. abroad, and contributed a list of po- tential writers for the Encyc- ACTUAL BOOK STORE lopedia of New York. The Recently two Friends of NN were in a Rensselaerswijck Seminar, which book store in NYC. When the clerk overheard them talking about New drew over 150 attendees in 1999, Netherland, he asked, why there will have as theme in 2000, “New weren’t any books out on New Nether- land, as he was “being driven crazy by Light on New Netherland,” and Drawing of the 1652 Poorhouse along the Rutten Kill in Beverwijck based on information in the Deacons’ Account Books. people asking for books on the topic will be concerned with the discov- but our buyer can’t find any such ery of new sources and the new use works.” Such frustrations should be di- Old England read Janny Venema’s rected immediately to the marketing of old sources. For an upcoming se- article in the October 1999 issue of department of Syracuse University ries of Dutch placenames in the Press at 315/4435546, and to our New York History entitled “Poverty Marcurius, the editor asked for website, which offers an extensive bib- and Charity in Seventeenth-Cen- liography on the subject.