The age-old craft of using windmills to to drain lowlands, saw lumber or grind grain is enjoying a renaissance in the Netherlands, a nation famous for the windmills dotting its landscape.

Sept. 5 (UPI) --People in the small Dutch village of Kinderdijk celebrated "Illumination Week" on Thursday by illuminating the Netherlands' iconic windmills starting at dusk. The 50-plus-year ...

Windmills in the Netherlands get record crop of new millers to keep the sails spinning. Published: Feb. 20, 2025, 6:50 a.m. Peter Booij, second left, and Erik d'Ailly, left, walk under the giant ...

ZAANDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — A wintry gust of wind raises hopes that the giant sails of a centuries-old windmill near Amsterdam will start turning.

The sun sets at Kinderdijk, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Netherlands, as windmills are illuminated at dusk on Thursday September 5, 2024. "Illumination Week", a fifty plus year tradition ...

A tree trunk waits to be sawn under the giant sails of the centuries-old Gekroonde Poelenburg windmill in Zaanse Schans, Netherlands, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. Credit: AP/Peter Dejong.