Come tomorrow, it will be Christmas Day for us. But in Santa Claus, Indiana, it is just like every other day of the year.
The town, which has the motto “America’s Christmas Hometown”, celebrates Christmas 365 days a year and claims to be the most Christmassy place in the US.
The town is deliberately named after the big man.
Nell Hedge, the previous director of the Santa Claus Museum, described how the whole town met up one Christmas Eve to figure out a new name.
She told The Mirror “The doors flew open on the building and a little girl heard the jingle of a Santa sleigh bell, and she said ‘Santa Claus’ and the town said ‘Santa Claus’.”
