Sinterklaas is the Dutch iteration of the classic Saint Nicholas legend, often called the “De Sint.” Unlike his American counterpart, Sinterklaas wears a more traditional bishop garb and delivers ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. – Children and their families crowded the Hudson River Maritime Museum on Saturday morning, making crowns and scepters for the Children’s Maritime Parade in the afternoon. The children ...

Sinterklaas is back! On December 4, after a year hiatus due to the pandemic, revelers young and old will bundle up and rejoin the day of festivities all over Rhinebeck. “This year is about coming ...

Santa Claus is out-sourcing! Kings County kids got to meet Santa Claus’s Dutch uncle at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Canarsie on Dec. 6. The benevolent, gift-giving Sinterklaas rode in on his ...

HOLLAND — Sinterklaas delights the children of Holland every year with his visit for Sinterklaas Eve. Holland's event, which began in the 1990s, is patterned after Dutch Sinterklaas celebrations and ...

Spiced cookies shaped like windmills or villagers mark celebrations of St. Nicholas (or Sinterklaas) — and remind food writer Emily Hilliard of... Though my grandmother Georgette was born in the ...

Niels van der Laan, the Head Piet in the Sinterklaasjournaal, has received multiple death threats this week, Merel Westrik, ...

Well, well, well. It’s that time of year again in the Netherlands. Not just to celebrate the second Bitcoin Conference in Amsterdam, but also the arrival by steamboat of our red caped Saint, the Holy ...

ALBANY — Karl Felsen’s wife, Carol, adjusted a red bishop’s miter and handed a wooden shepherd’s staff to her 6-foot-5 husband, who towered nearly 8-feet tall with the prelate’s headgear. He ducked ...

Mostly it was about spending time with our grandmother. ... We'd sit at her round dining room table in front of her 1931 Belgian Sinterklaas statue, sip hot chocolate and eat our speculaas. While ...