Theodore Dietz

Dutch Stories About Kingston Theodore Dietz

American history will never be complete without the cultural, economic, social, and political contributions of the early Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, now New York. In the early seventeenth century, hundreds of Dutch families left the Netherlands to venture into the undeveloped North American shores and soils to dream dreams of prosperity amid the dangers of wild animals and tribal attacks. Indeed, many had risen to prominence and niched their names forever in the annals of American heroism through their love of freedom and equality. Theodore Dietz, proud of Dutch contributions, briefly retells stories about people, places, and wars involving Dutch settlers that marks the evolution of the American way of life from mid-seventeenth century, when the Dutch East India Company fostered the European immigration to the New World, through the nineteenth century, when technology slowly changed the way people travelled by sea and by land. The Kingston area of New York is a place rich in Dutch cultural heritage, and what better way to preserve the invaluable beneficence but with a second book.