The Belgian Heritage Center (BHC) will welcome Luke Traver of Luke’s Lost Arts for a traditional wooden shoe carving demo on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 10 am to 12 pm. […] ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — Tulip Time is just around the corner. A big part of the festival traditions are the wooden shoes you see the dancers wear in the parade. The shoes are called 'klompen' or 'clogs' and ...

Today and next week, our focus is a Tulip Time landmark. In 1895, Herman Van Tongeren started making cigars in a factory on E. Tenth Street. By 1917, he had a retail store at 12 E. Eighth St. and a ...

Meet Holland’s most famous wooden shoemaker. Fred Oldemulders was born in 1898 near Laar, Germany, within a mile of the Netherlands border. There, his father was both a farmer and a “klompenmaker,” a ...