Hi George,

Thanks for this, and for clarifying the Website question.

Best wishes,

Pat

In message <[log in to unmask]>, George Myers
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>No I haven't but I used to work for Grossman and Associates (Joel
>Grossman used to write the "Western Hemisphere" report of archaeology
>in the Britannica Year Book. He used to hire some researchers and use
>the then "secret" on line resources to compile info) just about on
>Stuyvesant Square, former Dutch farm donated to the City by his heirs,
>there with a statue of "peg leg" Peter Stuyvesant, former Governor of
>Curacao, before New Amsterdam. An interesting historic district the
>American Quakers have their NY headquarters and school there. A
>building next to it was fought over that the composer Dvorak lived n
>("New World Symphony" etc.) that was to be landmarked but bought and
>destroyed by a local hospital for an "Aides Hospice". They found an
>"abandoned" statue of Dvorak on a rooftop somewhere and placed it in
>the park. The precedent set by the decision on the landmark is still
>in the political mix today about other sites, though architectural.
>
>I would have to agree, there's the "Clearwater", a Dutch recreated
>Hudson River sloop that I've been on out of Port Jefferson, NY once,
>and it comes down the river full of pumpkins to the South Street
>Seaport every year about this time, so doing I imagine partly bring
>the "Dutch" spirit into the City. Hate to have headless horsemen and
>no pumpkins! They have recently stated that "Ichabod Crane" was
>modeled after a Staten Island school teacher Washington Irving new,
>the high school on Irving Place, nearby Stuyvesant Square (and Union
>Square another landmark battleground, though the north side of the
>former oval now, where the statue of Abraham Lincoln is) has a head of
>Irving that rivals or exceeds the size of  one of the Central American
>"Mayan" heads! ConEdison's headquarters is also on Irving Place (and
>museum too,  though on Fourteenth street) and Elihu Root's (avowed
>Dutch President Teddy Roosevelt's Cabinet "Secretary of War") historic
>site.
>
>George Myers
>
>
>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:23:31 +0100, Pat Reynolds
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi George,
>>
>> I think that maybe there's a streak of 'Dutchness' running through New
>> York to this day.  Have you read 'Holland Mania'?
>>
>> With best wishes,
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> In message <[log in to unmask]>, George Myers
>> <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> >Did I tell you I live at 1918 Holland Ave., Bronx, NY? Maybe it's my
>> >domicile on my brain's membrane.
>> >
>> >On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:48:17 +0100, Pat Reynolds
>> ><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> Thanks for this.  I'm always looking for examples of 'Hollandism' (or
>> >> other uses of material culture to create or manipulate 'Dutch'
>> >> identity).
>> >>
>> >> Best wishes,
>> >>
>> >> Pat
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Pat Reynolds
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>>    "It might look a bit messy now,
>>                     but just you come back in 500 years time"
>>    (T. Pratchett)
>>
>>

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