Dutch women played a crucial role in the development of 17th-century New York and New Jersey, transforming a wilderness into a thriving community and influencing the rise of New Amsterdam.
It was about three centuries ago when New York was still New Amsterdam that the ancestor of our present-day Santa Claus first made an appearance in America. He was a bishop in the person of a kindly white-bearded old man in flowing robes riding a white horse.
The fact of the matter is that most Americans don't know much about their ancestors. Of one hundred randomly selected adults, how many do you suppose could give the maiden names of all of their four great-grandmothers, even if you gave them a few months to look up the data?
In 1948 at the 63rd annual dinner of The Holland Society of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria, former President Herbert Hoover received the Distinguished Achievement Medal for his humanitarian efforts in front of 400 attendees.
The average person who lived in Europe in the Middle Ages knew but little, and all he did know came from the lips of others who knew as little as he. Even those who could read and write were steeped in superstition.
Whitney Donhauser, President and Ronay Menschel Director of the Museum of the City of New York, was the recipient of the 2022 Gold Medal for Distinguished Contributions to the City of New York at the Holland Society.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States and former Governor of New York, died on April 12, 1945, at Warm Springs, GA. A renowned statesman and humanitarian, he had been a member of the Holland Society for thirty-five years.
The Lenni Lenape and possibly the Mahicans welcomed Europeans upon their arrival in the area between New England and Virginia, as recounted by a Delaware Indian's traditional narrative.
1909 Three Hundred Years Ago in New Amsterdam by Ottomar H. Van Norden de Halve Maen July 1949 Three hundred and forty years ago (July 29, 1609), a battle
History records a number of stirring events of three centuries ago in New Netherlands. It was in 1655 that the Indians went on rampage killing scores of settlers at Pavonia and other places.
