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Gatske Broekveldt-de Jong – Bloemen en Planten – 70 Korte Leidsedwarsstraat – Amsterdam, NL

Taken after WWII in front of my great grandmother's home and flower & plant store - © Frank H. Jump

Flowers & Plants © Frank H. Jump

After WWII, my great grandmother, Gatske de Jong sold flowers & plants from her domicile storefront a block southeast of Leidseplein in Amsterdam. My mother remembers spending days with her at the flower market learning the “bloemenhandel” or flower trade. I love the surprise when I enlarged this to find my grand mother with her back turned in the window to the left and the little girl hiding in the lower stoop looking around the steps. I don’t know who the customer in front was, but I know from her upturned smile, she was pleased with her purchase.

UPDATE: Just sitting with my mom, she remembers riding on the bicycle flower cart with her grandfather during WWII when they came upon young men from the Dutch Underground being lined up and shot down by the Nazis. The SS soldiers made everyone watch or else they were shot as well. My great grandfather grabbed my mother by the pigtails and held her still so she would see.

Other postings:

Annoying Place (in Dutch) – Verveelen Place, Bronx

© Frank H. Jump

The verb to annoy is verveelen in Dutch (pronounced “fer-fail`-en”). When passing the Robert’s Books & Stationery / Kornblau-Goldblum Supply Co signs on the Major Deegan Expressway, I never thought I’d be rediscovering another odd Dutch street name. Brooklyn has its Varkens Hoek (Hog’s Corner) and Paerdegats (Horse’s Hole) street names and the Bronx has its Annoying Place.  But in all reality, this street probably got its name from a Dutchman with the surname, ver Veelen. Read the genealogical study of this family name by John Blythe Dobson for the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record – April, 2002.

Gelukkig Nieuwe Jaar!

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Previously posted on Rosh Hashanah

Autumn Pocono Toadstool – Paddenstoel

© Frank H. Jump

Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Taken with iPhone © Frank H. Jump

Sometimes the iPhone camera surprises me.

The terms “Mushroom” and “Toadstool” go back centuries and were never precisely defined, nor was there consensus on application.

The term “toadstool” was often, but not exclusively, applied to poisonous mushrooms or to those that have the classic umbrella-like cap-and-stem form. Between 1400 and 1600 A.D., the terms tadstoles, frogstooles, frogge stoles, tadstooles, tode stoles, toodys hatte, paddockstool, puddockstool, paddocstol, toadstoole, and paddockstooles sometimes were used synonymously with mushrom, mushrum, muscheron, mousheroms, mussheron, or musserouns.

The word has apparent analogies in Dutch padde(n)stoel (toad-stool/chair, mushroom) and German Krötenschwamm (toad-fungus, alt. word for panther cap). Others have proposed a connection with German “Todesstuhl” (lit. “death’s chair”). Since Tod is a direct cognate to death, in that case it would be a German borrowing. – Wikipedia

Suydam & Onderdonk – Influential Dutch Families in Green-Wood, Brooklyn

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Richard Suydam GenealogyTHE OLD MERCHANTS OF NEW YORK CITY – Second Series – By Walter Barrett, Clerk – 1863

© Frank H. Jump

© NY Times

© Google Books

© Google Books

History of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch church of Breuckelen

History of the First Reformed Protestant Dutch church of Breuckelen

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Onderdonk Huis in Breuckelen

Dutch Rosh Hashana Cards – 1907 – Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

Amersfort School & Amersfoort NL Trade Songs via Skype

Film produced for ANYtime-US.NL by Koen Steenbergen

School children from Amerfoort NL and Amersfort Brooklyn sing “We’re All In This Together” together with great pleasure.

Schoolkinderen uit Amersfoort en New York zingen samen met groot plezier een lied uit een musical – High School Musical.

Marty Markowitz Skypes with Amersfoort NL @ Brooklyn Borough Hall

© Frank H. Jump

Brooklyn's official motto is Een Draght Mackt Maght. Written in the (old) Dutch language, it is inspired by the motto of the United Dutch Provinces and translated as In Unity There is Strength. - Wikipedia © Frank H. Jump

Marty Markowitz Skypes with ANYtime Festival, Amersfoort NL © Frank H. Jump

Marty Markowitz Skypes with ANYtime Festival, Amersfoort NL © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Marty Markowitz Skypes with ANYtime Festival, Amersfoort NL © Frank H. Jump

Marty Markowitz Skypes with ANYtime Festival, Amersfoort NL - Koen Steenbergen - ANYtime-US liaison- in back - © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Marty Markowitz Skypes with ANYtime Festival, Amersfoort NL © Frank H. Jump

Marty Markowitz Skypes with ANYtime Festival, Amersfoort NL - Koen Steenbergen - ANYtime-US liaison- in back - © Frank H. Jump

Marty with Hugo Gajus Scheltema - Netherlands Consul General - © Frank H. Jump

Marty with Hugo Gajus Scheltema - Netherlands Consul General - talking about bicycles being a Dutch icon and the possibility of more bicycle lanes in Brooklyn © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Koen Steenbergen, Deborah F. Schwartz - President of Brooklyn Historical Society - Marty Markowitz & Hugo Gajus Scheltema © Frank H. Jump

Yusuf Sayman - Kurdish photographer - who was an exchange photographer in the Netherlands - © Frank H. Jump

Yusuf Sayman - Kurdish photographer - who was an exchange photographer in the Netherlands - © Frank H. Jump

Johannes van de Pol, Lisa Fernandez -Principal of PS 119 Amersfort School - © Frank H. Jump

Johannes van de Pol, Lisa Fernandez & Barbara Snow -Principal & Asst Principal of PS 119 Amersfort School - flanking Koen Steenbergen of ANYtime-US.NL © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Lexi Rene in front of photo of herself by Dutch photographer Chantal Spieard © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Frank Jump with Johannes van de Pol © Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump

Amersfoort NL Focuses on Amersfort Brooklyn Focusing on Amersfoort NL – ANYtime-US.NL


Film by Koen Steenbergen

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Souvenirs From ANY – A Teaching Tool On The Amersfoort NL – Amersfort, Brooklyn Connection

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