Frans Riemersma and Hans FaberJul 10, 20217 minWa bin ik, wa bist do en wa bin wy?“If you don’t care about your own history, you may as well leave the classroom.” Words from the geography teacher at high school Simon...
Hans FaberSep 5, 202011 minWomen of Anjum or One Night in AnjumLate in the afternoon, December 28, 2018, one of the Frisian bastards arrived at Anjum after a hike that had started at Holwerd. A walk...
Hans FaberMar 25, 202025 minOut of averting the inevitable a community was bornThe COVID-19 pandemic is climbing towards its peak. Uncertainty of how destructive the pandemic is going to be. How many family members...
Hans FaberDec 1, 20194 minThe shipwrecked people of the salt marshesTidal marshlands and Frisians, a dual entity. The Chauci and the Frisians (Frisii) had learned to adapt to this unprotective, hospitable...
Hans FaberOct 25, 201918 minGroove is in the HearthThe hearth was in pre- and early-medieval times the holy of holies, the heart of the family. Where you would lay back and groove. Groove...
Hans FaberJul 27, 201913 minOrnament of the Gods found in a mound of clayIn the year 516, king Hygelac of the Geats, a tribe in the southeast of Sweden, raided Frisia. Back then, this part of the Netherlands...
Hans FaberMar 10, 201911 minHow the Hero of Haarlem is actually a dragon in disguiseIt was a Yankee by the name Mary Mapes Dodge who wrote ‘Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. A story of life in Holland’. The book was...
Hans FaberOct 14, 201811 minBeacons of NordfrieslandNordfriesland or North Frisia. The western coast and islands of region Schleswig. Stretching from the Danish town Tønder in the north, to...
Hans FaberMar 31, 20184 minWaiting on a terp 2.0 to be liberatedAugust 21, 1930, Wieringermeer. The reclamation was completed. Of land that used to be called the Creil Woods, in province Noord Holland...
Hans FaberDec 24, 20173 minThe terp that should have been a wierdeThe Hague, June 29, 2013. The day Zwaantje Vink-Brouwer, widow of Piet Vink, together with a party of local government people re-opened...
Hans FaberOct 29, 20176 minA terp for ChoquequiraoWhy in heaven’s name should a terp be constructed in the Andes? To be more precise, the location for this terp is at the remote,...
Hans FaberApr 23, 201714 minManual Making a Terp in 12 StepsHere is your DIY manual for enlarging or creating your own terp, your artificial settlement mound or house platform. Despite terps are...