Contrary to popular belief, the royal sport of golf wasn't introduced to America by Scots, but by the Dutch. Peter Stuyvesant even prohibited its play on city streets in New Netherland.
400 years ago: Peace was concluded with the Long Island and River Indians on August 30, 1645, at Bowling Green, ending the bloody war begun by Director Kieft’s attack on the Algonquins. Kieft and Domine Bogardus later clashed.
In search of my ancestral roots, I traveled to The Netherlands in late June 2019 with my wife, Cheryl, to visit my ancestral home in a tiny village called Schoonrewoerd.
