Once again I've fallen into the black hole of no posts for months. But today I've been going through my old emails and found some ideas that I can post. Sorry about my slacking. I'm actually writing this sitting an hour from Blauvelt NY having attended a seminar about the history around this area Wednesday night. My brain is humming with ideas. (you can probably tell I borrowed this from Wikipedia) Dutch Language Distribution in the United States. (LOOK Indiana is dark Blue!) There has been a Dutch Presence in America since 1602, when the government of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company with the mission of exploring for a passage to the Indies and claiming any uncharted territories for the Dutch republic. The rest of the story I've written about how the English took the colony away from Holland. Dutch was still spoken in many parts of New York at the time of the Revolution. For example, Alexander Hamilto...