Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Back to Breukelen

I've decided to join Give Us Back New York, the initiative to turn New York back into the great city of New Amesterdam. Please see the banner that I have inserted wihtout asking Kickmeup's opinion. Aside from having insanely good photoshop skills, the people on this website have a great idea. I support it 100%. I just hope it doesn't involve too much of my time nor require me to do anything more involved than figuring out how to get the banner posted on this blog and making a hyperlink. It took me less time than I thought it would but still - a lot of brain stress for this early in the morning.
This is a great cause for me because of my obsession with historical New York. I also collect old out of print New York City history books...AHEM BIRTHDAY APPROACHING.
If you think about it, New Amsterdam was the actually the cornerstone for what evolved into the modern liberal city of New York. It was a polyglot, muli-relgious society of all races and colors. As opposed to Great Britain where there were a lot of white folk who went to church and burned people. Damn those Brits and their red coats.
Anyway, cheers to me for being a joiner. Or as the dutch say - Cheers!

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