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Leave a reply. A picture is worth a thousand words. But words are still invaluable.
Sarnia Christian School, 1953-1973
Twentieth Anniversary Booklet Written and produced by Herman de Jong In 1973, Herman de Jong (my father) was an upholsterer. Not an obvious choice for authoring this school’s anniversary booklet. Until you know that he taught there, off and on, for fourteen of its first twenty years. He quit teaching
AACS Niagara Family Conferences, 1970 – 1991
For me, there’s a string of outposts stretching back from 1991 all the way to 1970. The first AACS (now ICS) August long weekend Family Conference was held in Niagara (Fort Erie) some fifty years ago. I've made a whole website for this.
The Panorama Page
Taking the Wide View: These panoramas are mostly just casual, hand held affairs. taken on the spur of the moment to preserve a wide view that I found particularly appealing
Pake Roorda
These sketches were done on the backs of wallpaper rolls for the Sunday School classes that Jacob Roorda taught.
The Time-lapse Page
Taking the Long View. There's no way to do time-lapse photography casually or on the spur of the moment. It takes planning, equipment, time, patience and specialized software. But it's worth doing . . .
Terschelling
Perhaps my father was lucky. There is a place in the world that he called his own. It's a wonderful place that he could visit and remember and which never lost its essence throughout his own variegated life.