Who is Henk van Kampen
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Genealogist, web author, photographer, art lover, avid reader
I write about genealogy and cemeteries, about art and literature, and sometimes I write travel articles, mainly about the Philippines and the Netherlands.
This page introduces you to a selection of my articles and activities on the web.
Genealogist
- Trace your Dutch roots, a Dutch genealogy guide
- A website about Dutch genealogy that helps you find your Dutch ancestors. The site teaches you to trace your roots in Dutch archives or on the internet. It helps you translate Dutch acts. It has regional genealogy guides. And much more!
- Trace your Dutch roots: The blog
- This blog is a companion to the website Trace your Dutch roots.
- The graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi
- The graveyard rabbit of Utrecht and Het Gooi is a blog devoted to cemeteries, burial grounds and grave markers in Utrecht and Het Gooi, and burial customs in The Netherlands. The blog is a requirement for membership of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits, of which I am a charter member.
- Genealogy pages
- A summary of my genealogy research.
- Emigration from The Netherlands
- From the New Netherland settlement to the post-war mass emigration to Canada and Australia, for almost 400 years Dutch emigrants have tried to find a better life in the New World.
- Trace your Dutch roots online
- If you have Dutch ancestors and want to find out more about them, you will be pleasantly surprised about the wealth of information that is freely available on the internet. In this Squidoo lens, I will guide you to the best places to find your Dutch ancestors online.
Follow me on Twitter: Genealogy account
Art lover, avid reader
I occasionally write about art and literature, usually on my gallery and portfolio website or on my blog Masterpieces, but also here on Squidoo.
Articles include:
- Goya's black paintings
- Towards the end of his life, Goya had become withdrawn, embittered, disillusioned. He was deaf, he had fallen out of grace with the royal court, his country was at war again. Between 1819 and 1823, when Goya was well in his 70s, he painted a series of fourteen or fifteen dark, disturbing, enigmatic images directly onto the plastered walls of two large rooms (one upstairs, one downstairs) in his country house. These paintings, that were later transferred to canvas, are now known as las pinturas negras, the black paintings.
- Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age
- In the 17th century, the Dutch republic became an economic and military superpower. It was also an era in which Dutch science and arts blossomed. This era is usually referred to as the Dutch Golden Age.
All art forms flourished in this era, but the Golden Age is especially remembered for its painters. Artists like Rembrandt, Johannes (or Jan) Vermeer, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals painted their masterpieces in Holland in the 17th century. - A clod of clay
In this essay I compare the role a clod of clay plays in William Blake's short poem The clod and the pebble and in Blake's longer work The book of Thel.
The unselfish, self-sacrificing love of the clod of clay, who offers herself up to be "the food of worms", is a key element of Thel. We find the same clod of clay, with the same unselfish love, in a poem in the Songs of experience. And, just as in Thel, the clod of clay does not have the last word here.
Travel writer
Several of my travel articles appeared here on Squidoo, including an account of my own wedding in Tacloban City, the Philippines. The Visayas Travel Guide has many articles, most of them by me, about the Visayas region in the Philippines. My gallery and portfolio website is also a good place to find my travel writings.
- A wedding in Tacloban
- I married in the summer of 2008 in Tacloban City, the Philippines. It was a Philippine wedding with all the bells and whistles: barongs, filipiniana dresses, a large entourage, arrhae, chord, veil, candle, and all the other attributes. The theme of the wedding was Filipiniana, the motif burgundy and gold. The groom had a burgundy barong, the bridesmaids beautiful burgundy dresses.
- Stations of the Cross
- In the Philippines, just outside Tacloban City, is a hill with the name Calvary Hill. On the slopes of Calvary Hill are groups of statues depicting the stations of the cross. It follows the traditional stations, from Jesus' condemnation to His entombment. There is one extra statue on top: Jesus arisen from death.
Follow me as I climb Calvary Hill on my way to the arisen Christ. - The road to Sulangan
- In the Philippines, on the island Samar, near the town Sulangan, is the shrine of San Antonio de Padua (Saint Anthony of Padua). Pilgrims from all over the country flock to the shrine to pray to San Antonio, and to ask for his intercession.
Mrs. van Kampen has made the pilgrimage twice in the year before the wedding, and a few months after our wedding we went to Saint Anthony's shrine together.
There is also a shorter version of this article here on Squidoo. - Five places in Holland that you must see
- An introduction to the five must-see places in Holland (a.k.a. The Netherlands), with (among others) windmills, tulips, and masterpieces of the Dutch golden age.
Photographer
Follow me on Twitter: Gallery account
Gallery blog
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