7. ISLAND - 1626 (Part One)

09/29/22 • 31 min

The Dutch West India Company finally find their boots on the ground in the fierce and passionate race of refugees who would not only become our bonafide "Manhattan Pilgrims", but would in fact forge the most impactful society ever known to man.

And by 1626, these Walloons would make their mark on this incredible Island, for evermore.

ISLAND - 1626 (Part One)

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And by 1626, these Walloons would make their mark on this incredible Island, for evermore.

ISLAND - 1626 (Part One)

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6. Wampum & Walloons - 1621

"To every time, there is a season."

And while Ecclesiastes' prophetic words sounded a bit different out of the mouths of the original settlers of this incredible place that we now call "New York", it meant the same thing in the seventeenth century as it does today.

And faced with the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, these bold, intrepid servants of God refused to accept the tyranny and oppression imposed upon them by the Holy Roman Empire and Hapsburg Spain. And in 1624, this fiercely passionate race of humans came here when no one else would and with their own sweat and blood they forged the roots of what would become the greatest city -- and eventually the greatest nation -- on Earth.

"Il y a un temps pour tout, un temps pour toute chose sous les cieux."

There is a time for everything.

And in 1624, it was the time for THEM.

Let us never forget the story of our true "Manhattan Pilgrims". Let us never forget the story of the Walloons.

Episode 6 - Wampum & Walloons

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The Spirit of Thomas Paine

The spirit of Thomas Paine is, in many ways, the spirit of the independence of this great nation. He is in fact our patron saint of American independence. But after all he gave and accomplished, does he rest peacefully? Probably not. When he was buried on his farm in New Rochelle, New York in 1809, he hadn't rested a decade when his bones were dug up and stolen away to England by an overly zealous admirer -- and those bones would never be seen (officially) again.

Well, this Halloween, we're going to find out how peaceful things are -- or are not -- with old Thomas Paine.

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