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Did you know? 

Between the 

years of 1942-1946 

while World War II raged in 

Europe, the Tulip Festival was 

put on hold. It was replaced 

by Victory Days. 

There were 

3,500 people who 

attended the first 

ever Tulip Festival in 

1936. It began as a 

one-day festival. 

Hundreds if not 

thousands of 

children have learned to do 

the Dutch Dances in 

wooden shoes during PE 

classes at school in Orange 

City throughout 

the years. 

When the 

thousands of visitors 

descend on Orange City for the 

Tulip Festival they have the 

opportunity to try some special 

Dutch treats. Some of the more 

popular ones include poffertjes, 

almond patties & letters, pea 

soup, Dutch puppies 

and saucijsjes. 

Before the 

Tulip Festival, there was the 

Tulip Show. In 1933, the local 

Lion’s Club, Yard and Garden Club 

and the Women’s Club 

sponsored the first-ever 

Tulip Show. 

Acording to Brett 

Mulder, who owns the 

Tulip Town Bulb Company with 

his wife, Nora, there are about 

50,000-60,000 tulip bulbs planted 

every year in anticipation of 

Tulip Festival. 

Celebrating 

75 years 

KATE HARLOW | STAFF WRITER 

The first-ever Tulip 

Festival Queen, 

Elizabeth Top Swets, 

was crowned in 1937. 

The Tulip Festival marks a major anniversary May 14-16 

The Tuplip Festival is here again. 

The citizens of Orange City 

will spend hours volunteering to 

prepare for the event, people will deck 

themselves out in traditional Dutch 

costumes and there will be tens of 

thousands of tulips in bloom around 

the town. 

But that’s nothing new. In fact, 2015 

will mark the 75th year of the Tulip 

Festival. 

For those who have been working 

to pull this special occasion together, 

the excitement is mounting as the 

event nears. 

“We are eagerly looking forward 

to the 75th Tulip Festival and all of 

At a Glance: 

WHAT: Orange City Tulip Festival 

WHERE: Various sites around Orange 

City 

WHEN: May 14-16 

COST: Varies depending on the 

event 

CONTACT: 712-707-4510 

ONLINE: octulipfestival.com 

the things that have been planned,” 

said Arlyn Schaap, who serves as a cochairperson 

along with his wife, Bea, 

on the steering committee. 

“A lot of work goes into that, and 

there’s still more work to do. We 

just hope what we’ve planned will 

be enjoyable to the citizens and the 

visitors who come to the festival. We 

are excited to have them celebrate this 

special anniversary with us.” 

In the essentials, the 75th Tulip 

Festival won’t be that much different 

than the first one held in 1936, according 

to Don and Nelva Schreur. 

Both are longtime Orange City residents 

and have memories of being involved 

with Tulip Festival when they 

were just kids. They have continued in 

that tradition and Nelva has become 

the Tulip Festival’s historian and Don 

has served on various planning committees. 

“At the first Tulip Festival in 1936 

there were people wearing wooden 

shoes and Dutch costumes,” said 

Don. “Jacob Van’t Hoff and Wilhelm 

Jansen were carving wooden shoes. 

There was a parade, bands, Dutch 

food and lots of tulips.” 

And in 2015? 

“If you come to Tulip Festival now 

you would still find people carving 

wooden shoes, Dutch food, and people 

wearing Dutch costumes — but 

now those costumes are completely 

authentic,” Don said. “Now instead 

of one band there are many bands 

and parades and we have way more 

tulips.” 

Don and Nelva are especially proud 

of the Tulip Festival because over its 

75 years it has carried on tradition 

and what they are doing today is very 

similar to everything they have done 

over the years. 

“Five to ten years from now, you 

will be able to come to the festival 

and see a lot of the same things as you 

would have in 1936,” said Don. 

“We have worked to improve the 

quality but keep the same important 

events.” F 

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LINDSAY KRUSE | STAFF WRITER 

Meet the new 


Queen 

Cara Venema 

crowned queen 

for 2015 

Like most little girls living 

in Orange City, Cara 

Venema dreamed of 

someday reigning as queen 

over the community’s annual 

Tulip Festival. 

“While standing by the 

Dutch dancing tree in third 

grade waiting to line up to 

dance before the Straatfest, 

I saw the beautiful queen — 

my swimming lessons teacher 

from the past summer. Ever 

since that moment, it’s been 

my dream to be on the Tulip 

Court,” said the senior 

at MOC-Floyd Valley High 

School in Orange City. 

Her fantasy became reality 

on Nov. 24, 2014, when she 

was crowned queen of the 

2015 Tulip Festival. 

She will join the other Tulip 

Court members — Jennifer 

Droog, Sydney Huizenga, 

Micah Vande Vegte and Emily 

Wielenga — in representing 

Orange City during the 75th 

annual celebration May 14- 

16. 

Venema is looking forward 

to the upcoming event, and 

she plans on taking the 2015 

theme — “Remembering Our 

Roots” — to heart. 

“I know a lot of people 

come and have a beautiful 

time in a beautiful town, but 

I want people to know our 

heritage — the story behind 

the costumes we wear, the 

story behind why we’re dancing 

and the story behind each 

float,” she said. 

Venema’s own Dutch 

heritage is well-known to the 

17-year-old. 

Her great-great-great-greatgrandfather, 

Jacob Venema, 

immigrated by boat to the 

United States from Groningen, 

Netherlands, in 1904. 

He made the trek to be with 

his brother, Pieter, and the 

rest of the namesake soon followed. 

Ninety-four years later, Cara 

Venema celebrated her roots 

by donning a Dutch hat for 

her first Tulip Festival when 

she was less than a year old. 

Her interest in the event has 

never wavered. 

Venema traded in her hat 

for traditional Groningen 

costumes and started riding 

floats in preschool. 

She began Dutch dancing 

in third grade and later joined 

MOC-Floyd Valley’s wooden 

Cara Venema, a senior at MOC-Floyd Valley High School in Orange City, 

will reign as the 2015 Tulip Festival Queen. Since being crowned in November, 

she and the other members of the court have been traveling 

the state spreading the word of the 75th event, scheduled for May 14-16. 

shoe-clad Pride of the Dutchmen 

Marching Band. 

She has since participated 

in about every aspect of the 

annual celebration, from 

sweeping the streets to taking 

the stage in the night show. 

Venema will have to give up 

all of her other Tulip Festival 

activities this year to fulfill her 

queen duties. 

“I’ll miss that this year, but 

it’s worth it,” she said. 

The teenager particularly is 

looking forward to stuffing 

down a few poffertjes, her 

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favorite Tulip Festival treat. 

“I usually don’t have time 

for more than one of those 

between all the activities I’m 

involved in, but this year I 

hope to make a few special 

trips over there,” Venema 

said. F 

At a Glance: 

NAME: Cara Venema 

POSITION: 2015 Tulip Festival 

Queen 

AGE: 17 

RESIDENCE: Orange City 

EDUCATION: Senior at MOC-Floyd 

Valley High School in Orange City 

FAMILY: Parents, Dan and Tonya 

Venema; two siblings, Brooke, and 

Cole. 

INTERESTS: Being involved in band, 

choir, orchestra, National Honor 

Society, student council, individual 

and large group speech, quiz bowl 

and musical theater productions. 

Queen’s court: 

Cara Venema will preside over 

the 75th annual Tulip Festival, happening 

May 14-16. 

The Queen’s court consists of: 

n Jennifer Droog, daughter of 

Rick and Sue Droog; 

n Sydney Huizenga, daughter of 

Darren and Dawn Huizenga; 

n Micah Vande Vegte, daughter 

of Gary and Amy Vande Vegte; 

n Emily Wielenga, daughter of 

Kevin and Dixie Wielenga. 

Royal history: 

n Since its inception, the Tulip 

Festival’s much beloved queen and 

court have been a prominent fixture 

at the festivities. The first queen 

was crowned in 1937 and with 

the exception of the war years of 

1942-46, a queen and court have 

reigned at each event. 

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Tasty treats await at Tulip Festival 

Poutine, BBQ highlight new items this year 

The Orange City Tulip Festival is 

a celebration of Dutch heritage. 

It’s also a celebration of food, 

with the different vendors scattered 

about. 

People partake in their favorite 

foods, whether they are of Dutch 

heritage or traditional American-style 

carnival foods. 

The blend of foods helps draw 

crowds year after year according to 

Tulip Festival Concessions Food Stand 

and Carnival Coordinator Clark Pennings. 

“It’s a Dutch heritage festival, but 

it’s also an eating festival, too,” Pennings 

said. 

He recalled a person who would 

eat many foot-long hot dogs each day 

throughout the festival. 

People have certain favorites they go 

back to each year. 

“There’s people that hit the food 

stands or Straatmarkt and just move 

around,” Pennings said. 

New this year is a number of barbecue 

items, along with a Canadian 

delicacy, poutine – a Canadian dish 

consisting of french fries, topped with 

gravy and cheese curds. 

The vendor bringing poutine has 

received rave reviews. 

“They do the North Dakota State 

Fair, and they said that they had some 

Canadians come down who said it 

was the best poutine they’ve ever 

tasted,” Pennings said. 

Poutine and a number of barbecue 

items join the traditional Tulip Festival 

staples such as the Dutch letter 

and pea soup. 

The menu sees a bit of variety as the 

years go on. 

“We’ll change the menu as time 

goes on, but not make big wholesale 

changes,” Pennings said. 

The menu at the Tulip Festival consists 

of items that all taste buds can 

enjoy no matter the weather. 

“If it’s hot, we’ve got the ice creams 

and snow cones,” Pennings said. “If 

it’s more moderate temperatures, we 

have the hot products and blended 

coffees. We’ve got everything in between.” 

F 

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WHERE: Grounds of the Sioux 

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WHEN: Saturday, May 16 from 9 

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COST: Free to browse 

CONTACT: 712-707-4510 


At a Glance: 

WHAT: Craft Show 

WHERE: Iowa State Bank, 105 Albany 

Ave. SE, Orange City 

WHEN: Saturday, May 16 from 10 

a.m.-6 p.m. 

COST: Free to browse 

ArtBurst Artists: 

Mary Jane Davidson, Sioux City, 

hand-painted silk scarves and 

garments 

Genny Echols, Meadow Grove, 

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Rick and Sue Ellison, Sioux City, 

carved wood, acrylic, bone and 

stone pens, razor handles and 

bottle stoppers 

Kathy Evert, West Okoboji, jewelry 

Matthew Fedders, Orange City, 

hand-tooled leather goods 

Jared Fenske, Omaha, NE, hardwood 

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plaques 

John Harriman, Robbinsdale, 

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Kimba Hawks, Elkhorn, NE, ceramics 

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jewelry and jewelry storage 

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Betina Perkins, Anthon, watercolors 

Stephen Randall, Sioux Falls, SD, 

oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings 

Steve and Leslie Schroeder, Waconia, 

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Tom Soucek, Litchfield, MN, watercolor 

paintings 

Judy Thompson, Orange City, 

watercolors and mixed media 

Annette Van Meter, Sioux City, repurposed 

jewelry 

Jacob Van Wyk, Ireton, IA, ceramics, 

etchings and lithographs 

Rhonda Wittkop, Cherokee, IA, 

fused glass jewelry and art deco 


Arts & Crafts 

Tulip Festival is a time for Dutch 

costumes, traditional food, parades 

and tulips, of course. But it’s 

also a time to appreciate art and crafts. 

Two different events will be held 

on Saturday, May 16, during Orange 

City’s 75th Tulip Festival that are dedicated 

to the arts and to crafters. Art- 

Burst will take place on the grounds of 

the Sioux County Courthouse and a 

Craft Show will be taking place in the 

handicap accessible basement of Iowa 

State Bank. 

ArtBurst 

Artists, hailing from five states, will 

have their work on display and for 

sale at ArtBurst on Saturday, May 16. 

The juried exhibition will feature 

artists who work in all types of mediums 

including painting in oil, acrylic 

or watercolor; ceramics; jewelry; 

tooled leather goods; custom metal 

signs and art; etchings and lithographs; 

hand-painted silk scarves and 

garments; stone-and-iron sculpture; 

hardwood frames, furniture and 

plaques, and much more. 

“ArtBurst is an opportunity for artists 

in the region to exhibit and sell 

their work during a festival that annually 

attracts thousands of people 

to Orange City. We have artists who 

return year after year, as well as a number 

of first-time exhibitors,” said Anita 

Cirulis, the coordinator for the 2015 

ArtBurst. 

In addition to perusing and shopping 

for unique art, ArtBurst will also 

feature live music by the band The 

Usual Suspects from 10 a.m. to noon 

and 4-6 p.m. 

At ArtBurst you will have the opportunity 

to actually create some art 

as well. 

Dakota Potters Supply of Sioux 

Falls, SD, will be on hand to help 

people create their very own piece of 

raku pottery. “Customers purchase a 

cast bisque piece of their choosing— 

such as a bowl, box or figurine—and 

apply a glaze, after which it is fired in 

a raku kiln,” Cirulis said. This is how 

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and Craft Show 

Craft Show 

A new thing this year at the 75th 

Tulip Festival is a Craft Show. 

“We had a Craft Show before at one 

time and we thought we could give it 

a try and see if people are interested,” 

said Aryln Schaap, who is the cochairperson 

of the Steering Committee 

along with his wife, Bea. 

There is no admission fee and the 

event will be held on Saturday, May 

16, in the basement of the Iowa State 

Bank, which is handicap accessible. 

The organizers wanted to make sure 

that the event would be a craft show 

and not turn into a vendor fair. 

“We wanted the products for sale 

to be handmade, or homemade — a 

person crafted it themselves,” Schaap 

said. 

Currently, there are approximately 

20 crafters who will be selling their 

products at the Craft Show. Some 

things that will be for sale include 

handmade clothing like baby clothes, 

and Dutch American Girl dolls, 

blankets, magnets, table runners and 

napkins that have been embroidered, 

to name just a few items. 

Art lovers and arts and craft lovers 

alike will have the opportunity to find 

something they love at the 75th Anniversary 

Tulip Festival. F 

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“As Orange City celebrates our 75th Tulip Festival, we invite 

you to join us for this special occasion. As we remember 

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our community and witness the dynamic growth of our main 

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MARK MAHONEY | STAFF WRITER 

Stadscentrum ready 

in time for festival 

Stan Vandersall, a volunteer from 

Orange City, works on the city’s refurbished 

Dutch street organ from 

1909 in its new home in the new 

Stadscentrum building. 

PHOTOS BY RYAN KRONBERG 

At a Glance: 

WHAT: Stadscentrum 

WHERE: Northeast corner of Central 

Avenue and Second Street 

Northeast in Orange City 

WHEN: Open daily at 9 a.m. during 

Orange City’s Tulip Festival 

COST: Free 

CONTACT: 712-707-4510 


Painting: 

The Stadscentrum will be 

home to the original, commissioned 

painting for Orange 

City’s 75th Tulip Festival. 

The artwork, entitled “A Faithful 

Walk,” will be on display at the 

building during this year’s celebration, 

which is set for Thursday-Saturday, 

May 14-16. 

During the Stadscentrum open 

house Wednesday evening, the 

Tulip Festival Steering Committee 

auctioned off signed print number 

1/75 of the painting by artist John 

E. Vander Stelt. 

To learn more about the Stadscentrum 

building, call the Orange 

City Chamber of Commerce at 

712-707-4510 or stop by the office 

at 509 Eighth St. S.E. in Orange 

City. 

New building to showcase Dutch street organ, wooden shoe equipment 

The construction of Orange City’s new Stadscentrum building 

has been completed in time for the community’s 75th Tulip 

Festival. 

The grand opening of the Stadscentrum — Dutch for “city center” 

— was celebrated during an open house Wednesday evening 

at the facility, which is located on the northeast corner of Central 

Avenue and Second Street Northeast in Orange City. 

“It’s pretty much in the center of the city,” said Mike Hofman, 

executive director of the Orange City Chamber of Commerce. 

“We wanted it to be in the heart of downtown.” 

The structure will be used to store the community’s refurbished 

Dutch street organ and equipment for making wooden shoes — 

known in Dutch as “klompens.” 

“We’re excited to have a showcase home for the organ and 

wooden shoe-making equipment,” Hofman said. 

Two kiosks in the structure also will depict Orange City and 

Tulip Festival history through artifacts, narratives and photos. 

“We’re excited to open Stadscentrum to the public,” said Les 

Douma, chairman of the Stadscentrum Committee. “It’s a wonderful 

addition to downtown Orange City and another unique 

tourism aspect to our community.” 

The Orange City Development Corporation owns the property 

where the Stadscentrum is located and was in charge of overseeing 

the project. 

The 1,750-square-foot Stadscentrum is one story and has a 

storefront with a Dutch motif, which includes a high roof, to fit 

in with the décor of the community. The budget for the project 

was approximately $400,000. 

Funding for the work included private donations, a Sioux 

County Community Foundation grant and contributions from 

the city, the Tulip Festival Steering Committee, the Orange City 

Community Betterment Board and the Orange City 21 Foundation, 

which is the Development Corporation’s nonprofit fundraising 

arm. 

Work on the project began last summer, and the plan was to 

have the Stadscentrum done in time for the 75th edition of the 

city’s Tulip Festival, which is set for Thursday-Saturday, May 14- 

16. 

“We’ve met that goal,” Hofman said. 

Not only will the building be accessible during the celebration, 

it will be open throughout the year for other special events and 

tours for both the Orange City community and visitors. 

“We’d like to access the organ more for various community 

events and to have it utilized more often than just the Tulip Festival,” 

Hofman said. 

“We want the shoe-making equipment on display to show people 

who come to town how to make old Dutch wooden shoes. 

It’s something to show tourists. We actually make shoes to sell to 

people during the Tulip Festival.”F 

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TY RUSHING | STAFF WRITER 

Book celebrates 

75 years of Orange 

City’s Tulip Festival 

Orange City native and author Bill 

Kalsbeek discusses book’s content 

His name may be on the front cover, but 

author Bill Kalsbeek insists the book, “Celebrating 

Our Dutch Heritage: The Story 

of the Orange City Tulip Festival,” was a group 

effort much like its namesake event. 

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 

Tulip Festival and Kalsbeek’s book aims to tackle 

its rich history. However, instead of writing it as 

a strictly historical piece, Kalsbeek wanted to 

add personal stories from the men and women 

that have kept it afloat for three-quarters of a 

century. 

He held focus groups with former parade 

organizers, festival queens and various local 

experts on Dutch culture. 

“These focus groups enabled me to develop a 

reservoir of stories that I could work into the text 

and make it interesting,” Kalsbeek said. 

The retired college professor also scoured old 

newspaper clippings, historical texts and studied 

the Tulip Festival collections of longtime Orange 

City residents, all of which put his decades of 

research experience to use. 

“I spent a lot of time thinking about how to 

organize this,” Kalsbeek said. 

It took Kalsbeek two and half years to put the 

book together after he got permission from the 

Orange City Tulip Festival Steering Committee. 

The culmination of all the time and effort is 

Kalsbeek’s six-chapter and 128-page tribute to 

his hometown’s signature event. 

“By description, this leads you to think that 

is all words. But, if you look at the book that 

I have written it is highly illustrated,” Kalsbeek 

said. “We have a couple hundred photographs 

in here and we’ve got old photographs and photographs 

of virtually everything I’ve been talking 

about.” 

Although Kalsbeek is a part-time resident of 

Orange City these days, he grew up in the area 

and earned his undergraduate degree locally 

Purchase: 

There are three ways to purchase “Celebrating 

Our Dutch Heritage: The Story of the Orange 

City Tulip Festival.” 

Online: octulipfestival.com/wp-content/up- 

loads/TulipFestivalHistoricalBookOrderForm- 

Website3.pdf 

Phone: 712-707-4510 

In person: Orange City Chamber of Commerce 

office, 509 8th St. SE. 

from Northwestern College. He didn’t move 

away until he attended the University of Michigan 

in Ann Arbor to earn his master’s in public 

health and later, his doctorate in biostatistics. 

In his decades away from Orange City, he never 

forgot about the festival or his own personal 

connection with it. 

“My dad was the town crier for 28 years — 

from 1950-1978 — so my family’s always been 

To help celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Orange City Tulip Festival, Bill Kalsbeek 

researched and wrote a book about the tradition. 

involved with the festival,” Kalsbeek said. 

Writing this book enabled Kalsbeek to rediscover 

Orange City and give him more insight as 

to why the Tulip Festival is so important to the 

community. 

“The community’s commitment to celebrating 

its heritage, and the heritage is obviously 


sort of the theme and the focus; but, to make 

it happen it takes incredible commitment from 

this community to pull this off,” Kalsbeek 

said. “I’ve been just amazed at how, over the 

years, people have stepped up. Volunteers, or 

hundreds of volunteers, who love to make this 

happen every year.” F 

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Historic shows: 

1950 “Tulip Time” Operetta 

1960 The Willow Man 

1970 Brigadoon 

1980 Oklahoma 

1990 Fiddler on the Roof 

2000 Oliver 

2010 Bye Bye Birdie 

2011 Godspell 

2012 My Fair Lady 

2013 Fiddler on the Roof 

2014 The Music Man 

For the 75th Anniversary of the Orange City 

Tulip Festival they are working to make sure everything 

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it another way, they want to make sure everything is 

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To that end the historic Tulip Festival Night Show, 

which has been putting on a show ever since the 

year 1950, is bringing something completely new 

to the stage. 

You might have already guessed it, but the 2015 

Night Show will be the Disney and Cameron Mackintosh 

adaption of “Mary Poppins.” 

While this beloved musical is well-known thanks 

to the theatrical efforts of Julie Andrews and Dick 

Van Dyke, who have delighted generations of children 

with the magical story throughout the years, 

the Night Show version will pack a few surprises. 

“The big thing about this show is that they took 

the movie and some of the stories from the original 

books by P.L. Travers that weren’t in the movie and 

put them together to form something new,” said 

Lois Estell, the director of this year’s Night Show. 

“They did not want to make the musical play version 

of the movie. They added more dancing sequences 

and there is still that fun quality to it, but it 

will be different.” 

According to Estell, one big change theatre goers 

will see in this version of “Mary Poppins” is a lot 

more background about Mr. and Mrs. Banks. 

The show will add George Banks’ nanny from his 

childhood who he just adored. It will also deal a lot 

more with Winifred Banks. In the Disney movie, 

she is a suffragette for women’s equality, but in the 

play that will be on stage in Orange City, there’s a 

different back story. 

Winifred was an actress before she married 

George and she is trying to fit herself into his life. 

“She is struggling with how to be a mom with 

these kids and how to be a good wife and live up to 

his standards,” Estell said. “While she’s struggling 

with that, George is dealing with issues with the 

band and he is distancing himself from the family. 

Winifred is the one who stands up and says, ‘no,’ 

we’re going to deal with this together.” 

“Mary Poppins” is the Night Show production that will be on stage during the Orange City 

Tulip Festival this year. The musical will run from May 13-16. 

Another cool aspect of this particular interpretation 

of the story is watching the family dynamics 

change as the play goes on. 

“You get to see their family come together,” Estell 

said. “They all start independent and separate from 

each other and then it’s fun to see that change.” 

One thing that the audience can count on is some 

familiar tunes. 

Many of the beloved songs were brought into this 

new adaption including, “Feed the Birds,” “Step in 

Time,” “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” “Spoonful of Sugar,” 

and, of course, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.” 

Estell has been involved with the Night Show 


since 2003 when she auditioned for “Joseph and 

the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” 

She has either been onstage, working backstage or 

sitting in the director’s chair for every Night Show 

since, and she is extremely exciting for this upcoming 

performance. 

“There are a lot of high expectations because it’s 

the 75th anniversary, but also because they know 

‘Mary Poppins.’ The important thing to remember is 

that it’s not the movie,” Estell said. 

“But it’s exciting. It’s been a lot of work and technical 

magic, but I am seeing it come together and I 

can’t wait.” F 

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Fly-in Breakfast (Saturday Only) 

8 AM 

5K/10K Road Race & 5K Wellness Walk 

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Molen & Tulip Gardens 

Children’s Art Exhibit (opens) 

9 AM 

Horse-Drawn Trolley Tours (begin) 

Century Home (opens) 

Flower Show (opens) 

Orange City Dutch Heritage Center (opens) 

Stadscentrum (opens) 

Quilt Show (opens) 

Pedicabs (begin) 

Antique Tractor Show (begins) 

Shuttle Service (begins) 

ArtBurst & Author’s Corner (Saturday Only) 

Vogel Mill (opens) 

Cruise-In Car Show (Saturday Only) 

Historical Book Signing at Stadscentrum 

10 AM 

Tulip Court Meet & Greet 

De Straatwinkel (opens) 

Straatmarkt (opens) 

Wooden Shoe Carving Demonstrations 

Little White Store (opens) 

Music by The Usual Suspects (Saturday) 

Craft Show (Saturday Only) 

Carnival Rides (open Saturday) 

10:30 AM 

Dutch Dozen Performance 

Little White Store (opens) 

Dutch Street Organ 

11 AM 

Carnival Rides (open Friday) 

11:30 AM 


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Carnival Rides (open Thursday) 

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Netherlands Movie Showing (daily at the Library) 

Wooden Shoe Carving Demonstrations 

Music by The Usual Suspects (Sat.) 

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Puppet Show 

5:30 PM 

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Puppet Show 

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Volksparade 

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