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Lot Long
by Gary E. Andrews - 11/10/26 11:20 AM
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Thanks David--I just knew you had a bit of greatness in you  More of the story. Back about 1900, the last Voorpostel on "de Postelhoek" was young and married, but unfortunately passed away. His widow remarried a neighbour and their descendants now live there and farm that land. That family, by the name of Bonnes, have also been in the area for generations, so all is good there. I went to visit them way back when after graduating from university, and kind of appeared on their doorstep unannounced. They were very hospitable and actually gave me a copy of the young freshly married couple's wedding photo. The "grandmother" was a daughter of that union. My own grandfather grew up there and loved to hunt and fish, so he knew every back road and trail and footpath....which came in useful as he smuggled stuff across the German border in WWI---when Holland was a neutral country. de Postelhoek is only a kilometer or 5 from the border, so I guess it was just too much temptation for him 
If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop
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