05/26/2021
Coumbia County History & Heritage Spring 2021
"Dutch Culture in the Hudson Valley"
On the Cover: 'Landing of Hendrick Hudson, 1609, at Verplanck Point, New York' 1874 Hand-colored engraving, from the original 1835 canvas painting by Hudson River School painter Robert Walter Weir. Published by Martin Johnson & Company Publishers, New York. CCHS Collection
In this issue...
•'Who Was "Dutch" in the Hudson Valley' by Russell Shorto
•'Van Alen-Northrup Papers: A New Reveal for an Old Family' by Ruth Piwonka
•'Lost in Plain Sight: Dutch Love of the Black Locust Tre'e by Roderic H. Blackburn
•'Martin Van Buren's Biography' by Peter Foley
•'Going Dutch: Katrina, Ichabod & Kinderhook's Sleepy Hollow Fact & Fiction' by Jim Benton
•'Dutch Influence on Vernacular Architecture' by André Hoek
•'Ichabod', Tintype photograph (unique print) by © 2020 David Sokosh, All Rights Reserved.
•'Irving's Fantastical Histories of Dutch Families & Events' by Lori Yarotsky
•'Rip Returned', Tintype photograph (unique) by © 2020 David Sokosh, All Rights Reserved.
•'Delft Tiles in Columbia County' by Walter Richard Wheeler
•'Before the Proprietors: the Dutch Origins of the City of Hudson' by David William Voorhees
•'The Apple Cider Doughnut: Monument to Dutch American Civilization' by Jim Benton
BOOK REVIEW: It's a Helluva Town, Joan K. Davidson, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, and the FIght for a Better New York by Roberta Brandes Gratz, reviewed by Bonnie Yochelson
BOOK REVIEW: Adriaen van der Donck, A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America by J. van den Hout, reviewed by Bob Peduzzi
#}