Four Centuries of Hollandic America!

As a Dutch-surnamed son of the far western frontier of what could have been The Republic of New Netherland (Republik van Nieuw Nederland), I am doubly remiss not to have noticed the "four-hundredth anniversary of Hudson’s discovery of what is now New York," which the indefatigable Andrew Cusack brings to our attention — Holland on the Hudson.

Fellow Yorkers Martin Van Buren and Sojourner Truth, both local inspirations to this blogger (as is, to be just, the Kaianerekowa Hotinonsionne), grew up speaking only Dutch as late as the turn of the XIX^th Century.