Scott Swanson
Lana Holden became fascinated with New Netherland when she was working on her master’s degree in history 10 years ago.
Along the way she discovered Catalina (Catalyntje) Trico, one of the first European women to live in the New World, who arrived on a ship from the Netherlands in 1624. In fact, Holden got so interested in Trico that she’s working on a book about her.
New Netherland was a Dutch colony in…