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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Projects

Dear Lowlanders,

Happy and lucky Friday the 13th to all of you!

Our Andrys did it again! I just published his latest travel report at our
Travels site. Please take a look at it, but don't let the high quality of
Andrys' writing intimidate you! We won't hold anyone to that high standard.

http://www.lowlands-l.net/travels/ameland.php

Please keep thinking and preparing for two new series: one about history and
one about folklore.

Let me hasten to add that our Jakob Liek's Gallery series of essays about
the olden days in Sealand (Zeeland, http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/liek.php)
are another prime candidate for cross-posting in the new history series.

Please try to come up with ideas and things you can do.

Question number one is "What titles and subtitles should we use?"

As for titles, I have the following (first) suggestions for the history
series and wonder what you think.

   - Backward Glances
   - How We Got Here
   - The Way We Came
   - The Way Things Went
   - The Way Things Were
   - Water under the Bridge

I kind of like "Water under the Bridge". Not only is it idiomatic but it is
poetic as well ... and it has this bridge metaphor that can convey
connections as well. But does it sound too much like "Let's forget about
it"? What I intend to convey is that those are things of the past and can't
be changed now, also want to allude to the constant passing of events and to
healing of feelings and relationships over time, but I don't want it to
sound as though things of the past are irrelevant.

If we chose this one, it would be all the more important to clarify things
by way of a subtitle, perhaps something like "History of the Lowlands
worldwide".

What do you think? Any alternative suggestions?

Please bear in mind that neither of the proposed series, nor anything else
we are about, is about the European Lowlands alone. It is about all
Lowlands-connected places, communities, individuals, languages, cultures and
events anywhere in the world. This includes such things such as early Dutch
merchants' presence in Japan, or Sephardic refugees and their descendants in
the Netherlands and Northern Germany and their roles in Latin America and
the West Indies, Dutch influences on Indonesian cultures, early Dutch-Mohawk
connections, early international sailors' cultures and codes, culture and
social structure of early released (and stranded) convicts in Australia,
British influence on Maori culture, the evolution of Griqua and Bastert
communities ...

Thanks and regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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