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From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: Projects<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>Last week I wrote:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I am sure I am not the only one here that has noticed a good deal of</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">interest and knowledge in history among us. This has led me to think it</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">would be good to showcase some of this as long as it is relevant to the</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Lowlands. So I am proposing another web series with historical information,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">such as in article ranging from very brief blurbs to lengthy essays, also</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">including things like photographs, drawings, paintings, maps and music, with</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">or without accompanying text. Of interest would be for instance the</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Hanseatic network topic we've talked about. Also, it would be nice to post</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">some interesting and relevant historical documents.</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>Later we discussed the scope and the title, and, as usual, I tried to "enthuse" you into pitching in.<br>
<br>Let it not be said that I don't whip these things out quickly these days! <i>Voilà!</i> The history site is ready and receptive:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/">http://lowlands-l.net/history/</a></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
So far it contains only one new article (Arthur's) among a few cross-posted adaptations from previously published articles. I am still waiting for permission to cross-post other articles. I know of one new article that is definitely in the making.<br>
<br>Please consider sending us some goodies for this. It doesn't have to be anything long or spectacular. As for suitable material, please read my explanations and suggestions on the index page and on the page calling for submissions:<br>
<br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/">http://lowlands-l.net/history/</a></span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/history/submission.php">http://lowlands-l.net/history/submission.php</a><br>
</div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>You may send submissions (n any language), comments, suggestions and corrections to me personally (</span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">) under "History" or "Water under The Bridge".<br>
<br>Also, please think about the other proposed web project and what you can do for it: a presentation of all manner of Lowlands folklore (mythology, legends, folktales, customs, taboos, rituals, folk wisdom, aphorisms, poems, songs etc.). Again, no long epistles are required. A single paragraph, a picture ... Fine! Again in any language.<br>
<br>And we need to come up with a title for it. Again I propose that we use a combination of a catchy, intriguing main title and an explanatory subtitle. My first suggestions:<br></span>
<p style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b>Kabouters, Ghost Ships, and Sinterklaas</b><br>Folk traditions of the Lowlands</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<b>Kabouters, Mad Meg, and Sinterklaas<br></b>Folk traditions of the Lowlands<br><br><b>Kabouters, Mad Meg, and Jan van Hunks' Soul<br></b>Folk traditions of the Lowlands<br>
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<b>Klabautermann, Mad Meg, and Jan van Hunks' Soul<br>
</b>Folk traditions of the Lowlands<br>
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<b>Goblins, Rip Van Winkle, and Jan van Hunks' Soul<br>
</b>Folk traditions of the Lowlands<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">... or any other such combinations, as long as it has the right sound and rhythm.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Mention of these (or other) examples of "typical" features of Lowlands traditions are supposed to entice people in. (Should that be the derivative "Santa Claus" instead of the original "Sinterklaas"?) </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Kabouters are the Little Folk. "Mad Meg" is the equivalent of "Dulle Griet". The Dutch pirate Jan van Hunks, whose soul the devil took on Tabletop Mountain, provides a nice link to South Africa. The Klabautermann is a North German goblins that haunts ships, oftentimes heralding the arrival of the dreaded Flying Dutchman. Rip Van Winkle is a North American fiction figure but alludes to Dutch colonial times, and it is connected with other such traditions (e.g. the German Karl Katz, the Jewish חוני המעגל Honi HaM'agel, Eastern Asia's 爛柯 Lànkē/Ranka, the Syriac Christian Seven Sleepers, and so forth.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Are there any other title suggestions?</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
And happy Vesak to those of you to whom this means something!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards and thanks,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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