And then, of course, there’s the town of Santa Claus. Santa Claus? Why is a small town in the midwest of America - more than 4,300 miles (6,920km) from Lapland - called Santa Claus? Maybe we ...

What: American Airpower Museum's annual Holiday Pancake Breakfast with Santa Claus When: 9 a.m. to noon ... What: Santa is Coming to Town, hosted by Farmingdale Village Water Witch Engine and ...

That was an American innovation. Early Dutch settlers of New York called the holiday hero Sint Herr Nikolaas, later shortened to Sinterklaas. The name morphed into Santa Claus over the 17th and ...

Santa Claus is coming to town! Samuel Grey Horse spreads holiday ... and my horses know when it’s December,” he told the American-Statesman in December. “They're ready to go.