HOLLAND — Before Jan Diederik “Diek” Medendorp dismantled the DeZwaan windmill in the small Dutch town of Vinkel in 1964, its blades were placed in what is called the “mourning position” — with the ...

is getting some help from an authentic Dutch millwright. Gerard Kleÿn, who lives in Alphen aan den Rijn, in the Netherlands, has been a millwright for 15 years and is helping to direct construction ...

Holland — Every Holland schoolchild knows about DeZwaan, the 200+-year-old Dutch windmill dismantled and reassembled in Holland in 1965. However, the story you’ve heard is just the beginning. “That ...

HOLLAND (AP) - A worker has found rotted beams during renovation work on the 250-year-old DeZwaan windmill at Windmill Island Gardens, making it likely that more repairs will be needed sooner than ...

Jan Diederik “Diek” Medendorp, the Dutch millwright who dismantled the windmill deZwaan in Vinkel, North Brabant, the Netherlands, and then rebuilt it here in Holland, died Jan. 4, 2011. He was 89. A ...

The DeZwaan windmill has been catching breezes for 200 years, the last 50 of them in Michigan. The last historic windmill allowed to leave the Netherlands has been earning its keep in the state's ...

WHEN A TOURIST visits Holland one of the first things he wants to see is a windmill, for the windmill has been associated with the landscape of the flatlands for centuries. But to the Dutch the ...