#Old Dutch Church

[larryshapiro]

Pocantico Hook & Ladder Company No 1, Sleepy Hollow, NY

home of the Headless Horseman

[timmurleyart]

A scary surprise at sleepy hollow. 🎃🍁🐎🍂🌝🎃

[aerikvon]

[3garcons]

Saturday O positive Festival 2024 in Kingston

Early Edition, various artists

[hellonew-yorkgirl]

8. "Kopflose Reiter" am Hudson und verträumte Kleinstädte in Connecticut

[postcard-from-the-past]

Church in Djocja, modern-day Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[psqqa]

@ all uquiz makers planning on asking me what my “ideal home” would look like. if you want a true actual answer out of me, this is going to have to be on the list

[princemick]

me: 'yeah my mom taught me that'

a new friend: '.......your parents are like that, that explains everything'

[ultramegahottie]

churches + a barn in pennsylvania

[geschiedenisish]

That moment you're asked to make the cover of a history book and get carried away.

[thefaestolemyname]

In response to that post about Catholics believing Jesus was in Hell between Good Friday and Easter

This the Apostle's creed, the first and most agreed upon summary of Christian Faith, from before there was such thing as Catholic vs Orthodox, and later vs Protestant

Taken from the CRCna website (my denomination... so far.)

[postcard-from-the-past]

100 years ago:

Zutphen, The Netherlands (by Peter Gutierrez)

[3garcons]

Happenstancery Improv, Richard Buckner, The Sparkles, Setting Sun, Amber Rubarth, Mahogany L. Browne, Delicate Steve, Holly Miranda, DRUGS, Amythst Kiah to finish out the artists at O Positive Saturday in Kingston at various spots . 2023

[thechanelmuse]

Juneteenth is a Black American holiday. 

We call Juneteenth many things: Black Independence Day, Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, Jubilee Day. We celebrate and honor our ancestors. 

December 31 is recognized as Watch Night or Freedom’s Eve in Black American churches because it marks the day our enslaved ancestors were awaiting news of their freedom going into 1863. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. But all of the ancestors wouldn’t be freed until June 19, 1865 for those in Galveston, Texas and even January 23, 1866 for those in New Jersey (the last slave state). (It’s also worth noting that our people under the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations wouldn’t be freed until April 28, 1866 and June 14, 1866 for those under the Cherokee Nation by way of the Treaties.)

Since 1866, Black Americans in Texas have been commemorating the emancipation of our people by way of reading the Emancipation Proclamation and coming together to have parades, free festivities, and later on pageants. Thereafter, it spread to select states as an annual day of commemoration of our people in our homeland. 

Here’s a short silent video filmed during the 1925 Juneteenth celebration in Beaumont, Texas:

(It’s also worth noting that the Mascogos tribe in Coahuila, Mexico celebrate Juneteenth over there as well. Quick history lesson: A total of 305,326 Africans were shipped to the US to be enslaved alongside of American Indians who were already or would become enslaved as prisoners of war, as well as those who stayed behind refusing to leave and walk the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. In the United States, you were either enslaved under the English territories, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, or under the Nations of what would called the Five “Civilized” Native American Tribes: Cherokee, Creek (Muscogee), Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminoles. Mascogos descend from the Seminoles who escaped slavery during the Seminole Wars, or the Gullah Wars that lasted for more than 100 years if you will, and then settled at El Nacimiento in 1852.)

We largely wave our red, white and blue flags on Juneteenth. These are the only colors that represent Juneteenth. But sometimes you may see others wave our Black American Heritage flag (red, black, and gold).

Juneteenth is a day of respect. It has nothing to do with Africa, diversity, inclusion, immigration, your Pan-African flag, your cashapps, nor your commerce businesses. It is not a day of “what about” isms. It is not a day to tap into your inner colonizer and attempt to wipe out our existence. That is ethnocide and anti-Black American. If you can’t attend a Black American (centered) event that’s filled with education on the day, our music, our food and other centered activities because it’s not centered around yours…that is a you problem. Respect our day for what and whom it stands for in our homeland. 

Juneteenth flag creator: “Boston Ben” Haith 

It was created in 1997. The red, white and blue colors represent the American flag. The five-point star represents the Lone State (Texas). The white burst around the star represents a nova, the beginning of a new star. The new beginning for Black Americans. 

Black American Heritage Flag creators: Melvin Charles & Gleason T. Jackson

It was created in 1967, our Civil Rights era. The color black represents the ethnic pride for who we are. Red represents the blood shed for freedom, equality, justice and human dignity. Gold fig wreath represents intellect, prosperity, and peace. The sword represents the strength and authority exhibited by a Black culture that made many contributions to the world in mathematics, art, medicine, and physical science, heralding the contributions that Black Americans would make in these and other fields. 

SN: While we’re talking about flags, I should note that Grace Wisher, a 13-year-old free Black girl from Baltimore helped stitched the Star Spangled flag, which would inspire the national anthem during her six years of service to Mary Pickersgill. I ain’t even gon hold you. I never looked too far into it, but she prob sewed that whole American flag her damn self. They love lying about history here until you start unearthing them old documents. 

In conclusion, Juneteenth is a Black American holiday. Respect us and our ancestors.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Portuguese church in Batavia, modern-day Jakarta, Java, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[anarchotolkienist]

Anyway this study of ethanasia in the Netherlands, which argues that a significant cause of regional differences in euthanasia seems to be the supply, i.e. how willing they are to propose it. Another one is lack of adequate palliative care in some parts of the country, and a third is social isolation/lack of support for the suffering. That to me is a strong enough argument against legalising it, on the basis of, as the authors put it, 'the invasive and irreversible nature of the procedure' (i.e. the fact that you're fucking dead at the end of it).

Oh God, they're trying to bring in assisted dying to Scotland again. I understand being in favour of it as a kind of liberal humanistic thing in principle, especially when previous votes happened in 2010 and 2013, but I don't at all think that it's justifiable in practice now following on from the experience in Canada and Switzerland, where assisted dying in practice becomes eugenic (what lives are seen as not being worth attempting to prolong or preserve by the medical establishment) and cruel, and represents a massive shift in the perceived duties of medical personnel away from a duty of care towards life. I think, possibly in general but especially given the realities of healthcare within a capitalist, patriarchal and racist system, it is an awful idea with more or less no justification.