Volume 17 , Issue 45

NW Okie's Journey

Before we look back into our history 103 years or so to the split of the two factions of the Republican party (conservative and progressive) we bring you a special snapshot of the snow that has been falling at Vallecito Reservoir this weekend and today (Monday).

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Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie (Dawg)

While we are receiving an early December snow storm these past few days, over the weekend, NW Okie has me digging up some history of Nieuw Nederlandt (New Netherlands or what you might know as New York).

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1912 - An Old Time Republican Asks Questions

Here is another news article, dated 23 October 1912, Wednesday, page 1, from The Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina, concerning "An Old Time Republican Asks Questions," in a letter to the editor of The Dispatch.

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1912 - Herald Says Wilson Leads

Here is another news article, dated 23 October 1912, Wednesday, page 1, from The Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina, concerning "Herald Says Wilson Leads."

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A Bull-Moose Obituary - 1912

Could not resist this news headlines found on page 3 of The Hancock Democrat, Greenfield, Indiana, dated 11 July 1912, Thursday: "A Bull Moose Obituary," via New York World.

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1912 - Judging The Candidates By Company They Keep

The New York Times, dated 1 August 1912, Thursday, page 10, had an interesting article: "Judging The Candidates By Company They Keep." How Roosevelt stood with discredited republican bosses, while Wilson had the people with him.

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Nieuw Nederlandt (New Netherland or New York)

The image on the left is the New Netherland with a view of New Amsterdam drawn by 17th century mapmaker Nicolaas Visscher.

Although the Netherlands only controlled the Hudson River Valley from 1609 until 1664, in that short time, Dutch entrepreneurs established New Netherland, a series of trading posts, towns, and forts up and down the Hudson River that laid the groundwork for towns that still exist today.

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Kouwenhoven Got Land From Indians

"Stories of Old Brooklyn" can be found in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, dated 17 April 1930, Thursday, page 23, with the headlines: "Kouwenhovens Got Land From Indians."

This is an Old story of the Old Kouwenhoven Mansion on Kings Highway. The plot on which the family mansion stood in 1930 was part of a tract bought soon after ancestor came here in 1630.

I wonder if this old Kouwenhoven mansion and the kouwenhoven family tree still exists today? Who has the Kouwenhoven family tree now? Would love to see it and the mansion if it still stands.

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