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 ...
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 ...