(WHTM) Late at night during the Christmas season, as you sit comfortably by the fire with your children, you may hear the sound of a bell ringing outside, then the scratching and tapping of sticks ...

While many Europeans will wait until the end of December for their Christmas celebrations, the Dutch have already got going. This evening (5 December) signifies the Sinterklaas evening with the ...

And, of course, no holiday tradition would be complete without food. Some traditions are religious, some regional and some are family-based. In the Pennsylvania Dutch culture, all three aspects affect ...

The Belsnickel — wearing furs, smeared in soot and waving a bundle of birch switches — visited children in the schoolhouse during Christmas on the Farm in Kutztown on Saturday, Dec. 7. Held on the ...