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When Sinterklaas came to Petersham Park.... by MrJoop

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“Selective colouring.”
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Around the 5th of December, “Sinterklaas” (St Nicholas) made it (“all the way from the Netherlands- if you still believe”) to various locations, in and around Sydney and elsewhere, in Australia.
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When the Dutch settled in New Amsterdam – later New York – they took the “Sinterklaas”-celebration with them and he morphed into Santa Claus.
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It was good fun playing the Sinterklaas songs, on the piano-accordion. Particularly, here, in Petersham Park.
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Read about it, in the Holland Focus magazine…….
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Full of Sinterklaases and other good things!!
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petersham, ozcloggie, dacc, speelgroep, dutch, sinterklaas

In 1969, I enrolled in the “Art Teachers Conversion Course”. It was my first experience of formal art lessons. Soon other interests prevailed, until, I had lunch, in Hazelhurst and then enjoyed the art classes there. Culminating in my exhibition, in 2008.

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  • RobynLee
    RobynLeeover 2 years ago

  • Thanks for that, RobynLee!!

    – MrJoop

  • MrJoop
    MrJoopover 2 years ago

    Now if the Dutch had got on with colonising Australia……….Sinterklaas would have visited EVERYBODY and Christmas time would have seen less Santas. It could have happened. See here