BELLFLOWER
BEGAN as a DUTCH-AMERICAN SETTLEMENT,
w/
LOTS OF DAIRY FARMS OWNED BY
IMMIGRANTS from
the NETHERLANDS but you won't find any farms or windmills or large tulip patches here today


Sunday, May 31, 2015

IS BELLFLOWER CALIFORNIA's GRAND RAPIDS? "Grand Rapids readies a royal welcome for Dutch monarch"

Is bellflower the most Dutch-american city in California? (Or Chino-Ontario? Modesto? Ripon?) Maybe bellflower was in the 30's when my grandfather founded Valley Christian,but I wonder if it still is?

"..
After their arrival at Gerald R. Ford International
Airport, the Dutch royals — including Princesses
Ariane, 8, Alexia, 9, and Catharina-Amalia, 11 — will
be serenaded, in Dutch, by a children's choir from
Ada Christian School. The family will visit the Helen
DeVos Children's Hospital and Van Andel Research
Institute — named for Grand Rapids' Dutch-American
royalty, the founding families of Amway...."

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/metro-state/2015/05/28/dutch-royals/28122869/

Sunday, May 10, 2015

+ BELLFLOWER GIRL (now adult) on TIME MAG & NOW 60 MINUTES "Misty Copeland to be featured on ‘60 Minutes’ with San Pedro City Ballet artistic director"

I just heard the 60 minutes segment about Misty Copeland,who grew up,partly,in Bellflower:
BELLFLOWER GIRL (now adult) on TIME MAG & NOW 60 MINUTES "Misty Copeland to be featured on '60 Minutes' with San Pedro City Ballet artistic director"
"Misty Copeland to be featured on '60 Minutes' with San Pedro City Ballet artistic director
...San Pedro City Ballet Artistic Director Cindy
Bradley will appear on CBS's "60 Minutes" 7
p.m. Sunday in a segment on ballet star Misty
Copeland, who recently graced the cover of
Time Magazine as one of the 100 most

influential people of 2015..."

http://www.dailybreeze.com//arts-and-entertainment/20150508/misty-copeland-to-be-featured-on-60-minutes-with-san-pedro-city-ballet-artistic-director/2
"...Between the ages of three and seven Copeland lived in
Bellflower, California, with her mother and her
mother's third husband Harold Brown, a Santa Fe
Railroad sales executive. [12] The family moved to San
Pedro where Sylvia eventually married her fourth
husband, radiologist Robert DelaCerna, and where
Misty attended Point Fermin Elementary School. ..
.
"
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Copeland