'Island at the Center of the World' Beekman 1802

'Island at the Center of the World' Beekman 1802When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its recordsrecently declared a national treasureare now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island

we travel upstream

profit-driven

Follow Dacquino as he interviews local experts

annotated translation of a recently discovered Dutch account book recording trade with Native Americans in Ulster County

Little brown bats do us a big favor

conscientious residents doubled their efforts to help runaways reach Canada

Set of 6 notecards featuring Pencil sketches

proclamations

and the people who live and work and raise families in the community

Hortons Mill Bridge

placing their ancestors at the very center of the American story

Infused with pure goat milk