Word: gerrit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hymn should be a prayer set to music," says the Rev. Gerrit Barnes of Denver's Christ Church (Episcopal). "It should follow the idea of 'make a joyful noise unto the Lord.''' Ideas change about what is joyful noise, and what is just plain noise. Church musicians and their pastors are quietly revising the nation's taste in congregational song, and in the process are consigning a surprising number of quaint old favorites to oblivion, while searching oblivion for revivable classics. Dr. Charles C. Hirt, professor of church music at the University of Southern...
Among the show's well-polished highlights are the gleaming heirlooms loaned to the museum and shown on the opposite page. The tankard has a coin imbedded in its lid and is engraved with roses representing the arms of the Roosevelt family; made by Gerrit Onckelbag, it was possibly part of the dowry of Catharina Hardenbroeck, who married Jacobus Roosevelt in 1713. The fat little teapot is the work of Jesse Kip, and was probably made between 1720 and 1722 for the Douw family. The caudle cup, also the work of Onckelbag. is engraved with the stars-and-windmill...
This brief item appeared in a 1957 book that belongs on any alltime worstseller list: The Blauvelt Family Genealogy. It was one of some 25,000 capsule biographies, taking up 1,100 pages, of the descendants of Gerrit Hendricksen (who later became known as Blauvelt), a Dutchman who helped settle New York in 1638. Yet it was to set off a great search-one that tried to distinguish between fact and fiction, between records and rumors. For in its deadpan way, the item plainly said that John Kennedy had been married secretly to someone before he wed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...