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



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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

i POST THIS HERE as a REMINDER of DUTCH HERITAGE re the INDO PROJECT 9 www.theIndoProject.org

i POST THIS HERE as a REMINDER of DUTCH HERITAGE, AND OUR CONNECTION to SOME of the INDONESIANS DUE TO THE COLONIZATION of a part of indonesia. I attended this Dutch-American festival recently in Long Beach, California (near bellflower's Dutch community) and was surprised to find several indonesian-dutch-american groups and individuals also celebrating their dutch-american heritage. I talked to a gal from the Indo Project about it and she informs me that a lot of her people speak or spoke Dutch just like our ancestors from the Netherlands. She was very nice and I felt a kinship with her based on this heritage as well.So let us remember our Indo-Dutch-American brothers & sisters as well when we celebrate our Dutch heritage. 

 re the INDO PROJECT 9 www.theIndoProject.org