kermis

“Here is spring again, says the dance,” Ferris writes about the “The Village Kermis,” better known as “The Peasant Dance,” which hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

Bike races have been sent through buildings before – there is a legendary kermis in Belgium which went through a bar full of drinkers and cyclo-cross races are sometimes sent through beer tents – but this was about more than merely upping the returns in adjacent brasseries.

But when the owner of the 17th-century work, “St. George’s Kermis With the Dance Around the Maypole,” sold it at a Sotheby’s auction in 2009, it drew more than four times that amount, or $2.1 million.

The first Kermis held at New Amsterdam was in October, 1659.

The Kermis, an Old World festival, was one of those early introduced at New Amsterdam.