Jul 11, 2015
The Half Moon: A ship filled with stories At the end of May 2015, a replica of the Half Moon, built in Albany, New York, arrived in Hoorn, The Netherlands. It is the second replica of the ship Henry Hudson made famous in his journey as the first European to sail up...
Jul 10, 2015
The Onrust: The first research ship of North AmericaWhen Adriaen Block’s ship, the Tiger, was destroyed by fire at the mouth of the Muhheakantuck River, a new one was built immediately: the Unrest. It was the first ship to be built in North America and, because Block,...
Jul 9, 2015
Native Peoples commemorate four hundred year old agreement with the Dutch In 2013, the Haudenosaunee, the people of The Six Nations (formerly the Iroquois Confederacy), commemorated the ‘treaty,’ according to their oral history, finalized in or around 1613, between...
Jul 8, 2015
Dutch Consul General in New York confirms treaty again, On August 9, 2013, Consul General of the Netherlands in New York, Rob de Vos, greeted two hundred paddlers participating in the Two Row Wampum Campaign. The paddlers traveled from Onondaga Lake through the Mohawk...
Jul 7, 2015
River of many names The Hudson River has had many different names. The oldest is the indigenous name, Muhheakantuck, which loosely translated means “river that flows both ways,” which is an appropriate name for a tidal river. When the river was discovered, in 1524, by...