Max Winkeler, Editor.
(504) 392-1140
Dear Members,
Hopefully, the members who have a connection to the Internet, are looking from time to time at the web site of our Holland Club www.hollandclubno.org where you can find the information about scheduled events and coffee meetings. Now and then there are changes you should be aware off. Joke Mondada informed us that the Butterfly Exhibit we planned to see on Sunday April 20 is not available. Instead we are now combining the scheduled coffee meeting of April 19 with another event on April 20. This will become our New Orleans Street Car outing which will include a Coffee meeting (most likely at
March 9 Sunday 1:00 pm Winterkost Party Burns Residence
April 20 Sunday 1:00 pm Street Car/Coffee Gathering Point TBA
May 4 Sunday 1:00 pm Indonesian Potluck Coumou Residence, Slidell
Let us know if you need transportation to and from the meeting site. We may be able to assist you, but cannot guarantee that of course.
We will start again scheduling events in September after the vacations. Don’t forget to look from time to time at the web site.
March 29 Saturday 10:00 am Rendez-vous Café on General de Gaulle/Westbank
May 24 Saturday 10:00 am La Madeleine on Severn/Eastbank
June 21 Saturday 10:00 am Still Perking at Washington/corner Prytania
July 19 Saturday 10.00 am Common Grounds/Hue P.Long/Gretna/Westbank
August 23 Saturday 10:00 am Puccino’s/ Magazine Street/Eastbank
De DVDs cost $ 24.00 each including Post & Handling. The DVDs are available in the NTSC format for the USA. Let me know if you want one so that I can send you an order form. In case you would like to see one of the DVDs, but not buy it, you can let me know as well. With enough interest in a few, we may decide to buy them for the club and give every one the chance to see them or we can show them during a meeting.
We will let you know more details in the next few weeks after we make first a trial run.
• But first we have the Winterkost Party coming up at the residence of Malcolm and Linda Burns (1320 N. Rendon St., NO, 70119 phone: 504-486-7793) on Sunday March 9 at 1:00 pm.
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If you have an opportunity to cook and bring something that will fit into that theme it would be very much appreciated. I am sure that you have still in the attic a Dutch cookbook and otherwise your creativity will work as well.
• So this is the list of events for the next few months:
• For the Coffee meetings we have the following schedule:
Cily and I are really enjoying those coffee meetings. It gives us a good forum for all kind of exchange of (personal) information. Apart from coffee you can always get a light breakfast or a piece of cake. So, try it once if you are not coming regularly.
• In the course of the last month I got a couple of requests out of Holland
• 1. Mr. Wim Mulder sent me a list of nostalgic DVDs with the theme “remember Holland. The titles are:
a. Nederland in historische filmbeelden 1898-1955
b. Amsterdam in de periode 1930-1935
c. Groningen, stad en provincie 1915-1950
d. Stoomtractie bij de NS 1947-1957
e. Spoorwegen in Nederland 1994
f. Viering 100 jaar Tram in Amsterdam 2000
g. Fokker 1911-1996
h. Diverse onderwerpen uit het Polygoon Journaal 1950-1955
i. Diverse onderwerpen uit het Polygoon Journaal 1955-1960
j. De Blauwe Tram in Noord-Holland 1955-1957
• 2. Another request came from Mr. Fedor Steer who in fact lives in Miami, Fl who is considering importing children’s DVDs (children TV programs) such as Pipo the Clown, Swiebertje, Paulus de Boskabouter enz. Transferred to NTSC. They are of course in Dutch. We will put the web site of Mr. Steer foreignlanguageentertainment.com on our web site so that you can get more details.
• 3. During our New Years Party our member Nicole Samuel-Sampson informed the attending members, that her husband Dewey is playing in a band that regularly performs in Preservation Hall. When a big enough group of members would like so, Dewey can arrange for a session when his schedule would permit this as well. We would like to hear from the membership. Send me an e-mail or show your interest with a phonecall.
• 4. Eric Gossiaux has changed his e-mail address to hollandclubno@yahoo.com. Please update your address book and your contact list.
• 5. This time of the year you maybe planning your vacation already. Most of us make digital pictures when we are abroad. When you burn your photos on a CD or DVD, we could show them during one of our meetings. Conny and Casey Willems went to Mali in Africa and made marvelous pictures of that interesting but poor country. We hope to get those pictures on a DVD and show them hopefully with his comments.
• 6. Cily and I are becoming more and more aware that our City offers an enormous amount of cultural events and programs and many are free of charge. We went e.g. to “Music of the Mississippi” in the St. Louis Cathedral. The church was completely filled. The L.P.O. played beautiful music. But there are many more in the city. Check from time to time the Lagniappe section in the Times Picayune on Saturdays and break away from your home for a couple of hours.
• 7. Eric Gossiaux, our Vice-President is involved (partly because of his daughter's art study) in visual arts. He mentioned a number of galleries on Magazine street and the warehouse district that have regular exhibitions. You may have heard about “White Linen Night” when several studios and galleries are open at night
• 8. The New Orleans Opera is attracting formidable singers and those who attended some operas last season and this year so far are enthusiastic. This may be something to do with interested members in the future.
• 9. Cily and I are active in the People Program for persons 50 year and older. We both teach as well as taking lessons. It has enriched our lives substantially and we enjoy it very much. The courses are very diversified and for a relatively small memberships fee you can take as many courses as you want. The courses are given by volunteers. Look at the web site: www.peopleprogram.org for more information about places and times. There are two places on the East Bank and one on the West Bank.
