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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Ellen Zunon — the journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert
Description: Ellen Zunon of Guilderland was brought up on stories of her Dutch ancestors. Her father’s side of the family goes back to Cornelis Van Slijck who came to Fort Orange, now Albany, from the Netherlands in 1634. He married a Mohawk princess, the story goes, although now Zunon is “not so sure about the princess part,” she says in this week’s podcast. Bridging two worlds, van Slijck’s daughters became interpreters; a son founded Schenectady Village in 1661, she said. Zunon is a member of the Dutch Settlers Society, established in 1924, and also a trustee of the New Netherlands Institute, a not-for...