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.
