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New developments in Pilgrim Sites Demolition Plans: Leiden's Vrouwekerk and Aalmarkt Sites |
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(01Oct2000) November 7, 2000, has been set for the Council of State’s hearing on the City of Leiden's intention to demolish the remains of the Vrouwekerk, the medieval church that was used by the Walloons (Huguenots) after the Reformation. Through its association with the families of Philip Delano, Francis Cooke and his wife Hester Mayhew, Edward Bumpas and other Huguenots who became Pilgrims, this site symbolizes the confluence of two major streams in the history of persecution, refuge, religious freedom, and colonial migration, - the English Separatists now called the Pilgrims and the French Calvinists known as the Huguenots. In addition to the Pilgrim connections, this is the church from which numerous families emigrated to New York and Guyana in 1622-24, led by Jesse de Forest. Thus the site is important for its historical associations with the beginnings of colonial settlement in both New York and New Netherlands. |
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(10Sep2000) Following discussions and decisions on the town’s plans to regulate prostitution (only four brothels), which the central government has decriminalized as of October 1st, Leiden’s Town Council debated the Aalmarkt demolition plans in its meeting last Tuesday, September 12, 2000. Despite eloquently expressed opposition to large-scale construction and to demolition of the historic sites in the Aalmarkt area, the coalition led by the Labor Party (PvdA), circumvented attempts by the opposition parties to require preservation of historic monuments as well as to require competitive bidding and plan proposals, thus retaining complete control of the develement within the cabinet of the mayor and aldermen. |
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Pilgrim Petition Getting Results |
(31Jul2000) A petition on the UCC's web site to save one of the last remaining Pilgrim church ruins in Holland seems to be paying some dividends. The official most responsible for promoting a shopping center in Leiden, where the ruins are, abruptly resigned. City fathers have now asked Jeremy Bangs, an American historian and curator of the Leiden Pilgrim Museum, to submit plans more sensitive to historical preservation.
In preparation for the city council's meeting in June, the UCC Office of Communication forwarded thousands of signatures from the petition. That online document received backing from members of conservative groups like the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference and the Southern Baptists to Mormons, Anglicans, Catholics, and Greek Orthodox. The story has also been carried by organizations like the Mayflower Society and Huguenot Heritage.
Still unknown, however, is the position of Ahold, a Dutch-based-multinational food company that is a major eloper of the site. Among its American properties is Stop and Shop, a supermarket chain strong in Pilgrim New England and other parts of the United States. Ahold says it is "committed to good citizenship and to making a contribution to society at large." |
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New SMDPA Web Site Gets Kudos |
(15Feb2000) "An example for other societies to emulate." ("Dick Eastman Online" Ancestry.com)
Since the official launching of SMDPA's new web site, www.SAIL1620.org, at the Society's Annual Meeting on January 15th, webmaster Joseph Howland Wood reports that in addition to receiving praise from members by e-mail and its appearing as a link on the North Carolina state Society's web site, the site has also been cited in the Ancestry.com newsletter. |
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Establishment of Plymouth Colony Voted 8th Most Important Religion Story of the 2nd Millennium |
(30Jan2000) The establishment of Plymouth Colony by the Pilgrims in 1620 and the 1636 establishment of Rhode Island by Roger Williams were voted the eighth most important religion story of the second Christian millennium by the Religion Newswriters Association which consists of writers and editors who cover religion on a regular basis for the secular media in the US and Canada.
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