Cultuur Historische Vereniging
't Heer en Feer
Taalroute Schiermonnikoog


  




9. Park opposite the church

Our paradise,
When sometimes I walk through our village
And everything passes me,
How beautiful and fresh the picture is
Of what I then can hear and see.
Lammert Wiersma


Lammert Wiersma
Schiermonnikoog 1881 - Schiermonnikoog 1980

When Lambert, son of merchant captain Jan Lammert Wiersma, was 15 years old, he moved to Amsterdam with his family. He reached his ranks at high speed and sailed until his marriage in 1909. Then he came ashore and eventually became director of the pilotage.
In 1969 he returned to the island.