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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: History</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;">Dear Lowlanders,</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;">American Thanksgiving being almost upon us (on Thursday this week), I would like to draw your attention to a ten-part high quality video series offered online by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), undoubtedly the best broadcasting outfit in the United States: </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">American Experience: We Shall Remain<br></b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1097935833">http://video.pbs.org/video/1097935833</a></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;">It is about the initial period of contacts between New England's Indigenous people and early English colonists, most of it presented from an Indigenous point of view ("the other side of Thanksgiving," so to speak).</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;">There is a fair bit of written and recorded background and behind-the-scenes information as well, as well as information about the ethnic groups involved and their descendants' lives in our time.</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;">Apparently a good deal of research went into authentic representations. Impressive is the effort to have all Indigenous characters (played by Indigenous persons from various communities) speak apparently reconstructed Nipmuc, the native Algonquian language of Worcester County, Massachusetts, closest relative of Massachusett, Mohegan-Pequot and Quiripi-Naugatuck-Unquachog.</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;">Enjoy, and happy Thanksgiving!</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;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</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;">P.S.: Olaf Bordasch, a former LL-L member, informed me regarding Altona that the Danish King was also the Duke of Holstein (including Altona), a separate entity. Technically speaking, Holstein were therefore not part of Denmark.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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