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This week I met a couple going to Scotland. They wanted to experience their immigrant roots. The couple is 4th generation Scottish Canadian and they travel to Scotland to visit the town of their ancestors. At about the same time my brother send me a DVD from a movie made about life in my hometown in 1952. It was an amazing experience to travel back in time.
The movie showed everything that went on in town. The things that struck me the most were how many children and babies there were. It seemed like every woman had a young child in her hand. Living in the polders there was water everywhere. Many families had lost a child through drowning, including our family. So the movie showed a demonstration about saving a drowning victim. First they trow him in the river, then people from the road jump in, then they bring the victim ashore and revive him. It was sort of comical the way it was done. The movie shows school children making toys, frog leaping, and riding sheep. It shows the local music band, the women's clubs, the sport clubs and the many other organizations active in town. Most women wore aprons and many people wore wooden shoes. Another thing that was noticable were the bad teeth. The couple going to Scotland were going to the town's archives, the newspaper archives and the churches, hoping to find out as much information as possible about their ancestors. It is important for our decendents to know their immigrant roots, the history behind them. I made a copy of the DVD for each of our children. They, and their children always have the chance to go back to Holland and visit the town we were born in. But by having this DVD, they also have the chance to see how life was like in that town when we were 6 years old. For that I have to thank those people in town who decided it was a good idea to record life in Aarlanderveen, the way it was in 1952.
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Some of the town's people found it a good idea to make a movie about life in our town in 1952. I am forever grateful for it. I watched the movie, which was set on DVD.