A book on DORP culture and landscape will be there in 2011
06 January 2010
A rude Englisch comment on this rural landscape was: "That is a cloudscape, not a landscape". This summer living for two mounths in the beloved Lake-District, I observed how mountains hold and catch clouds, this made me longing for free moves.
More movement and holds:
Cooperation with the cheese-storage-museum in Wommels is delayed. The local volunteers have to make the museum ready for the summer 2010 and have no budget for an external project. But as things might go slower in ourvillages and rural surroundings, they still run steady. The earlier described DORP project, my sister Pietsie and I will restart this summer and autumn. We plan to publish a book in spring 2011 based on some of the research already done in 2007. (See entry DORP). The recently received Belvedere-grant is a welcome contribution to revitalise our research and to do the publication.
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Horsemilk Produce on the shelf and Wjelsryp on the wall in Neuenkirchen
04 January 2010
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Mayor introduced me to cheese-storage-museum.
19 May 2009
Mayor Liemburg of Littenseradiel - our district - contacted a group of volunteers that run the local cheese-storage-museum. The museum which will be reopened this summer. She thought it would be interesting to work with myvillages.org in 2010. So there was a meeting arranged in Wommels on the 14th of May 2009. I learned that day that dairy farming is a very old tradition in the area I grew up. They showed me the building and we talked about our ideas on landscape and farming. Later this year we hope to work things out for 2010.
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Village Produce Films and small shop in the Veterinary-Clinic-Nylân
27 March 2009
Produce from Hoefen, Wjelsryp and Lawson Park.
Woman waiting with her cat for vetenarity treatment.
All eight Village Produce Films run in a loop and visitors to the clinic can look in the vitrine to see some produce. The clinic is in Leeuwarden and is run by my sister Maaike - a vetenarian - that also runs the horsemilk-farm Friesland together with her husbad Arie.
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Postcards
07 May 2008
Fryske Gea
The border to the next landowner (Wjelsryp - Westerein 11).
The ground school of Wjelsryp does a project with postcards sent from places abroad where villagers live or have lively links to. Siebe Haven (the teacher of group 7 and 8) asked me to use my links. I asked Kathrin to ask her mother to sent a card from the area around Bamberg and hope to get a Chinese postcard by the Grizedale crew. Guestroom will work this out, see www.happystacking.tv. Just sent them a picture of a typical landscape of the Fryske Gea (Friesland).
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